Company
Leadership
- Drug R&D (> 30 years)
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- CrystalGenomics, Inc. (co-Founder & CTO)
- LG Life Science (Principal Scientist, Drug design & Peptide Research)
- UCSD (Post-doc, Structural Studies & Drug Design)
- UCSD (Ph.D., Medicinal & Peptidomimetics Chemistry)
- Korea University (BS & MS, Chemistry & Physical Chemistry)
- Major Experiences
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- Next generation NSAIDs: Pre-clinical & clinical development, NDA (Korea) filing & approval , drug reimbursement, marketing support
- Anti-bacterial agent specific for S.aureus: Drug design to proof-of-concept in human
- Targeted anti-cancer agent: Drug design to Phase 1b/2 for 2 indications.
- 2 early stage candidates: discovery & out-licensing to US companies
- Several strategic collaborations with global pharma and biotech (Astra-Zeneca, Daiich-Sankyo, …..)
- Awards
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- “Jang Young-Sil Award” 2016
- “Silver-Tower Industry Medal” by President of Korea, 2015
- “Minister Award for the Industrial Technology” 2015
- “Minister Award for the Contribution to Advancement of Healthcare Technology in Research Field” 2014
- “2009 Top 100 Researches in Korea”
- “New Intellectual” 2002
- Drug R&D (> 20 years)
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- Korea Drug Development Fund (Senior Researcher)
- Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (Research Staff Member, Protein Drug Design & Informatics)
- KAIST (Ph.D., Drug Design & Informatics)
- CrystalGenomics, Inc. (Principal Scientist, Drug Design & Informatics)
- LG Life Science (Scientist, Drug Design & Informatics)
- Seoul University(BS & MS,Chemistry & Physical Chemistry)
- Major Experiences
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- Project evaluation & management of numerous drug discovery & development projects for grants.
- Discovery of antibody drugs and novel biologics
- Involved in the discovery of 2 Phase II clinical stage projects (Anti-bacterial agent specific for S.aureus, targeted anti-cancer agent)
- Drug design in many other projects (one candidate was licensed out and several strategic collaborations with global pharma and biotech)
- Skills & Techniques
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- Biomedical bigdata analysis
- Drug design (small molecules, peptides and peptidomimetics & proteins)
- Management of drug discovery projects