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Dr. Kwang-Hyun Baek
Designation
Professor, Vice-Director of CHA Stem Cell Institute
Department
Department of Biomedical Science
University
CHA University
Country
Repulic of Korea
Biography
Kwang-Hyun Baek is a full professor of Department of Biomedical Science and a vice-director of CHA Stem Cell Institute at CHA University in Korea. He received his Ph.D. from the department of Zoology and Genetics at Iowa State University in 1995 and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of Pediatric Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School. He is an editorial board member of a dozen of international journals. Current research and clinical interests are in the molecular genetics of deubiquitinating enzymes relevant to various immunological cancers and stem cell lineage. He first coined terms ubiquitomics and deubiquitomics in the field of the ubiquitin-proteasome system.