I am currently Staff Scientists at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. I earned my Ph.D. in biology from Hormone Research Center at the Chonnam National University, South Korea in 2004.After that, I received 5-year postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK), NIH, U.S. I am a member of American Society for pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. I have authored 20 peer reviewed research papers, and several reviews and one book chapter. I have received the NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE) in 2009.
