Editorial Board Member - JMBS
Kwang-Hyun Baek
Department of Biomedical ScienceCHA University
Republic of Korea
BIOGRAPHY:
Kwang-Hyun Baek is professor, Department of Biomedical Science and a director of Cell & Gene Therapy Research Institute at CHA University in Korea. He received his Ph.D. from the department of Zoology and Genetics at Iowa State University in US in 1995 and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the division of Genetics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and in the department of Pediatric Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School. He has been serving as an editorial board member, a regional editor, and an editor-in-chief of many international journals. Current research and clinical interests are in the molecular genetics of ubiquitination and deubiquitination systems relevant to various cancers and stem cell proliferation/differentiation. He first coined terms ubiquitomics and deubiquitomics in the field of the ubiquitin-proteasome system. In addition, he is interested in genomics and proteomics during cancer cell proliferation and apoptosis.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Metabolism
Oncogenes is in various signaling pathways
Cell proliferation
Genetics
Biology
