Educational Background

Doctor of Internal Medicine (02/2010): Seoul National University College of Medicine

Master of Internal Medicine (02/2007): Seoul National University College of Medicine

Bachelor of Medicine (02/2002): Seoul National University College of Medicine

Professional Career

Director of Heart Failure & Cardiac Transplantation Center (2022-): Asan Medical Center Heart Institute

Director of Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (2018-): Asan Medical Center

Professor (2024-): University of Ulsan College of Medicine

Research Field

Cardiogenic shock

Acute/Chronic heart failure

Mechanical circulatory support (VA-ECMO, LVAD)

Papers, Books, etc. presented or published by your name

1. Trends of Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation and Heart Transplantation in Korea. Int J Heart Fail. 2024;6:e20. (first author)

2. Left Atrial Venting versus Conventional Treatment for Left Ventricular Decompression during Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support: The EVOLVE-ECMO Randomised Clinical Trial. Eur J Heart Fail. 2023 Aug 24. (corresponding author)

3. Prognosis of Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Mixed, Cardiogenic and Septic Shock. ASAIO J. 2023 Jul 1;69(7):658-664. (corresponding author)

4. Association of cerebral blood flow with the development of cardiac death or urgent heart transplantation in patients with systolic heart failure. Eur Heart J. 2012 Feb;33(3):354-62. (first author)

5. Priming With Angiopoietin-1 Augments the Vasculogenic Potential of the Peripheral Blood Stem Cells Mobilized With Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor Through a Novel Tie2/Ets-1 Pathway. Circulation. 2009;120(22):2240-50. (first author)

Educational Background

2006.09 ~ 2012.08 Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

1998.03~2004.08 B.S. in Chemistry
Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Professional Career

2020~ Associate Professor / Department of Biomedical Sciences / Department of Biomedical Informatics / Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

2019~2020 Assistant Professor / Department of Biomedical Sciences / Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

2018~2019 Research Associate / Mentor: Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D. / Laboratory of Human Genetics and Genomics /The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA

2013~2018 Postdoctoral Associate / Mentor: Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D. / Department of Genetics / Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Research Field

genetics, genomics, computational biology

Papers, Books, etc. presented or published by your name

1. Lee J, Kim Y, Lee C, Jeon SS, Seo H, Lee J, Choi J§, Kang M, Kim E, Shin K. Generation of Prostate Cancer Assembloids Modeling the Patient-specific Tumor Microenvironment. PLoS Genet. 2025 in press.

2. Kim B*, Chun H*, Lee J, Park M, Kwak Y, Kim JM, Kim SG, Ryu JK, Choi J§, Cho SJ. Predictive biomarkers for metachronous gastric cancer development after endoscopic resection of early gastric cancer. Cancer Med. 2024 Aug;13(16):e70104. doi: 10.1002/cam4.70104. PMID: 39171503; PMCID: PMC11339598.

3. Lee S*, Yoon JG*, Hong J*, Kim T, Kim N, Vandrovcova J, Yau WY, Cho J, Kim S, Kim MJ, Kim SY, Lee ST, Chu K, Lee SK, Kim HJ, Choi J§, Moon J§, Chae JH§. Prevalence and Jungmin Choi 4 Characterization of NOTCH2NLC GGC Repeat Expansions in Koreans: From a Hospital Cohort Analysis to a Population-Wide Study. Neurol Genet. 2024 May 20;10(3):e200147. doi: 10.1212/NXG.0000000000200147. PMID: 38779172; PMCID: PMC11110025.

4. Bellone S*, Jeong K*, Halle MK, Krakstad C, McNamara B, Greenman M, Mutlu L, Demirkiran C, Hartwich TMP, Yang-Hartwich Y, Zipponi M, Buza N, Hui P, Raspagliesi F, Lopez S, Paolini B, Milione M, Perrone E, Scambia G, Altwerger G, Ravaggi A, Bignotti E, Huang GS, Andikyan V, Clark M, Ratner E, Azodi M, Schwartz PE, Quick CM, Angioli R, Terranova C, Zaidi S, Nandi S, Alexandrov LB, Siegel ER, Choi J§, Schlessinger J§, Santin AD§. Integrated mutational landscape analysis of poorly differentiated high-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma of the uterine cervix. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Apr 23;121(17):e2321898121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2321898121. Epub 2024 Apr 16. PMID: 38625939; PMCID: PMC11046577

5. Miao R, Chun H, Feng X, Gomes AC, Choi J§, Pereira JP§. Competition between hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells controls hematopoietic stem cell compartment size. Nat Commun. 2022 Aug 8;13(1):4611. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-32228-w. PMID: 35941168; PMCID: PMC9360400.

Educational Background

B.S., Department of Animal Science & Technology, Chung-Ang University.

Ph.D., Animal Biotechnology Major, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University.

Professional Career

Sep/2022 – present : Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Hallym University

Aug/2023 – present : Assistant Professor Adjunct, School of Medicine, Yale University

Dec/2019 – Aug/2022 : Associate Research Scientist, School of Medicine, Yale University

Dec/2015 – Nov/2019 : Postdoctoral Associate, School of Medicine, Yale University

Jan/2014 – Nov/2015 : Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri

Research Field

1. Fabry, Cadasil and PAH disease modeling with patient-derived iPSCs to study the pathogenesis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, cerebrovascular disease and vascular stenosis and to develop therapeutics

2. Development of multi-organ platforms integrating heart, blood vessel, brain and lung tissues using patient-derived iPSCs and tissue engineering techniques to study cell-tissue interactions, disease pathogenesis and develop targeted therapies

Papers, Books, etc. presented or published by your name

1. Batty L*, Park J* and Qin L* et al., Vascular endothelial cells derived from transgene-free pig induced pluripotent stem cells for vascular tissue engineering, Acta Biomater. 2025;193:171-184. (*contributed equally)

2. Park J*, Riaz M*, Qin L*, Zhang W*, Batty L*, et al., Fully biologic endothelialized-tissue-engineered vascular conduits provide antithrombotic function and graft patency, Cell Stem Cell. 2025;32:1:137-143. (*contributed equally)

3. Riaz M*, Park J*, Sewanan LR* et al., Muscle LIM Protein Force-Sensing Mediates Sarcomeric Biomechanical Signaling in Human Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Circulation. 2022;145:1238-1253. (*contributed equally)

4. Luo J*, Qin L*, Park J*, Kural MH* et al., Readily Available Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts Derived From Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Circulation Research. 2022;130:925-927. (*contributed equally)

5. Park J*, Anderson CW*, Sewanan LR*, Kural MH* et al., Modular design of a tissue engineered pulsatile conduit using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes. Acta Biomater. 2020;102:220-230. (*contributed equally)

Educational Background

Ph.D. in Bioinformatcs, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

M.S. in Biomedical Science(Neuroscience), Ajou University, Seoul, Korea

B.S. in Life science and Computer & information Engineering, Cheonghu University, Cheonghu, Korea

Professional Career

[2024-Present] Principal Researcher, Division of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Department of Chronic Disease Convergence Research, National Institute of Health, Korea

[2021-2024] Research assistant Professor, Center for KIURI Bio-Artificial Intelligence, Department of Brain Science and Neurology, Suwon , Korea

[2019-2021] Research assistant Professor, Department of Medical Informatics, Catholic University, Seoul, Korea

[2017-2019] Postdoctoral fellow, Department. of Bioconvergence analysis ,Korea Basic Science Institute Cheongju-si, Korea

Research Field

Research focuses on developing AI-integrated bioinformatics approaches for precision medicine and pharmacogenomics by leveraging multi-modal omics data. The aim is to identify predictive biomarkers and model individual drug responses by integrating computational biology and data science, ultimately informing personalized therapeutic strategies.

Papers, Books, etc. presented or published by your name

1. JH Jhee, MY Song, BG Kim, H Shin, SY Lee. "Transformer-Based Gene Scoring Model for Extracting Representative Characteristic of Central Dogma Process to Prioritize Pathogenic Genes Applying Breast Cancer Multi-omics Data.

2. Lee, S. Y*., Wang, H., Cho, H. J., Xi, R., & Kim, T. M. The shaping of cancer genomes with the regional impact of mutation processes. Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 54(7), 1049-1060

3. Park, J*., Lee, S. Y*., Baik, S. Y*., Park, C. H., Yoon, J. H., Ryu, B. Y., & Kim, J. H. Gene-wise burden of coding variants correlates to noncoding pharmacogenetic risk variants. International journal of molecular sciences, 21(9), 3091.

4. Lee, S. Y*., Song, M. Y*., Kim, D., Park, C., Park, D. K., Kim, D. G., ... & Kim, Y. H. A Proteotranscriptomic-based computational drug-repositioning method for Alzheimer’s Disease. Frontiers in pharmacology, 10, 1653.

5. Lee, S. Y*., Hwang, H*., Kang, Y. M., Kim, H., Kim, D. G., Jeong, J. E., ... & Yoo, J. S. SAAVpedia: Identification, Functional Annotation, and Retrieval of Single Amino Acid Variants for Proteogenomic Interpretation. Journal of proteome research, 18(12), 4133-4142.

Educational Background

Mar, 2010 – Feb, 2017 / College of Medicine, Catholic Kwandong University, Gangneung, Korea M.D.

Professional Career

Mar, 2022 – Feb, 2024 / Fellowship, Cardiology, Gachon University, Gil Medical Center

Mar, 2024 – Feb, 2025 / Fellowship, Cardiology, Yonsei University, Severance Hospital

Mar, 2025 – / Clinical Assistant Professor, Cardiology, Gachon University, Gil Medical Center

Research Field

General cardiology

Papers, Books, etc. presented or published by your name

Yang T, Jang Y, Chung WJ. Int J Heart Fail. 2024 Oct;6(4):176-178.

Won Y, Yeo J, Yang T, Chung WJ, Clin Hypertens. 2025 Jan 2:31:e5

Educational Background

(1977 ~ 1981) Seoul National University / BS, Pharmaceutics

(1981 ~ 1983) KAIST / MS, Biological Science

(1986 ~ 1991) Brown University / Ph.D., Biology and Medicine

Professional Career

(2001 ~ 2020) Seoul National University, College of Pharmacy and Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Genetic Engineering (Professor)

(2020 ~ 2023) Yonsei University, College of Pharmacy and School of Medicine (Professor)

(2023 ~ present) Yonsei University, Institute for Convergence Research and Education in Advanced Technology, Yonsei University and School of Medicine (Professor)

(2010 ~ present) Ministry of Science and ICT, Medicinal Bioconvergence Research Center (Director)

(2021 ~ present) Zymedi Inc. (CEO)

Research Field

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase, translation, cancer biology, therapeutic target discovery

Papers, Books, etc. presented or published by your name

1.Kim DG, Choi YS, Lee YN, Lim SM, Kong JW, Song JH, Roh YA, Harmalkar DS, Lee KS, Goo JI, Cho HY, Mushtaq AU, Lee JH, Park SH, Kim DY, Min BS, Lee KY, Jeon YH, Lee SK, Lee K, Kim S*. AIMP2-DX2 provides therapeutic interface to control KRAS-driven tumorigenesis. Nature Communications 13: 2572, 2022

2.Yoon I, Nam MS, Kim HK, Moon HS, Kim SM, Jang JY, Song JA, Jeong SJ, Kim SB, Cho SM, Kim YH, Lee JH, Yang WS, Yoo HC, Kim KB, Kim MS, Yang AR, Cho KK, Park HS, Hwang GS, Hwang KY, Han JM, Kim JH, Kim S*. Glucose-dependent control of leucine metabolism by leucyl-tRNA synthetase 1. Science 367: 205, 2020

3.Lim S, Cho HY, Kim DG, Roh YA, Sin SY, Mushtaq AU, Kim MK, Bhattarai D, Sivaraman A, Lee YJ, Lee JH, Yang WS, Kim HK, Kim MH, Lee K, Jeon YH, Kim S*. Targeting the interaction of AIMP2-DX2 with HSP70 suppresses cancer development. Nature Chemical Biology 16: 31, 2020

4.Thomas XN, Burrier R, Kim S*. Biocon’s target factory. Nature Biotechnology 36: 791, 2018

5.Kim JH, Lee C, Lee M, Wang H, Kim K, Park SJ, Yoon I, Jang J, Zhao H, Kim HK, Kwon NH, Jeong SJ, Yoo HC, Kim JH, Yang JS, Lee MY, Lee CW, Yun J, Oh SJ, Kang JS, Martinis SA, Hwang KY, Guo M, Han G, Han JM, Kim S*. Control of leucine-dependent mTORC1 pathway through chemical intervention of leucyl-tRNA synthetase and RagD interaction. Nature Communications 8: 732, 2017

Educational Background

중앙대학교 사회복지학 석사

한국외국어대학교 경영학과

Professional Career

한국 폐동맥고혈압 환우회 회장

세무법인원형 세무사

Educational Background

연세의대 1998, MD

심장초음파 인증의(KSE)

Professional Career

내과 레지던트, 서울아산병원

류마티스 전임의, 인하대병원

류마티스 진료교수, 세브란스병원

Research Field

결체조직연관 폐질환, 폐동맥고혈압

Educational Background

2002 – 2008 Korea University College of Medicine, Korea; Bachelor’s degree

2013 – 2015 Korea University Graduate School, Korea; Master’s degree Internal Medicine

2016 – 2018 Korea University Graduate School, Korea; Doctor’s degree Internal Medicine

Professional Career

2016 – 2018 Fellow, Korea University Guro Hospital, Korea

2018 – 2019 Clinical Assistant Professor, Korea University Guro Hospital, Korea

2019 – 2020 Clinical Assistant Professor, Korea University Ansan Hospital, Korea

2020 – 2022 Assistant Professor, Korea University College of Medicine, Korea

2022 – date Associate Professor, Korea University College of Medicine, Korea

Research Field

Tissue regeneration

Epidemiology

Meta-analysis

Papers, Books, etc. presented or published by your name

Finger-aware Artificial Neural Network for predicting arthritis in Patients with hand pain. Artif Intell Med. 2025

Intra-articular injection of stigmasterol-loaded nanoparticles reduce pain and inhibit the inflammation and joint destruction in osteoarthritis rat model: A pilot study. Drug Deliv Transl Res. 2024

Characterization of virus-mediated autoimmunity and the consequences for pathological process in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Clin Rheumatol. 2023

Educational Background

B.S., Medicine, 1999 KyungHee University Medical College, Seoul, Korea

Ph.D., 2007 KyungHee University Medical College, Seoul, Korea

Professional Career

Mar 2005 - Feb 2008 Instructor, Division of Rheumatology, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Catholic University Medical College, Seoul, Korea

Mar 2008 - Feb 2013 Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Chosun University Medical College, Gwangju, Korea

Jan 2012- Dec 2012 Visiting scholarship, Clinical research center, University of California San Diego, California, USA

Mar 2013 - Present Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Seoul hospital, Republic of Korea

Research Field

Currently, prof. Hyun-Sook Kim operates the CTD-ILD Multidisciplinary Clinic at Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital. Her clinical and research interests mainly focus on systemic sclerosis (SSc) and CTD-ILD, focuses on understanding the underlying mechanisms of SSc and CTD-ILD, particularly identifying novel biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets.
As of April 2025, she hold the positions of Director of Clinical Guidelines at the Korean College of Rheumatology (KCR) Association, President of the Imaging Research Group, and Advisor to the Scleroderma Research Group in KCR.

Papers, Books, etc. presented or published by your name

1. Full translation of “Atlas of capillaroscopy in rheumatic disease” (by Cutolo), 2017

2. Esophageal Involvement and Determinants of Perception of Esophageal Symptoms Among South Koreans With Systemic Sclerosis. Joon Seong Lee, Hyun-Sook Kim, Jung Rock Moon, Tom Ryu, Su Jin Hong, Young Sin Cho, Junseok Park, Tae Hee Lee. J Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2020;26:477-485.

3. High prevalence of salivary gland ultrasound abnormalities in systemic sclerosis. Kyung-Ann Lee, Wonho Choi, JongSun Kim, Hyun-Sook Kim. Joint Bone Spine. 2021;88:105113. doi: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2020.105113.

4. Long-term evaluation of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in a patient with progressive systemic sclerosis. Namho Kim, Jong-Sun Kim, Won-Ho Choi, Kyoung Ha Kim, Kyung-Ann Lee, Hyun-Sook Kim. Arch Rheumatol 2021;36:308-310.

5. Reliability and validity of the Korean version of the University of California-Los Angeles Scleroderma Clinical Trial Consortium Gastrointestinal Tract instrument in patients with systemic sclerosis. Tae Hee Lee, Joon Seong Lee, Suyeon Park, Kyung-Ann Lee, Hyun-Sook Kim. Korean J Intern Med. 2021 Nov;36(6):1504-1514. doi: 10.3904/kjim.2020.190. Epub 2021 Feb 10.

6. Radiologic approach and progressive exploration of connective tissue disease-related interstitial lung disease: meeting the curiosity of rheumatologists. Hyeji Jeon, Bo Da Nam, Chong-Hyeon Yoon, Hyun-Sook Kim. J Rheum Dis 2024;31(1):3-14.

7. Effect of abatacept versus conventional synthetic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs on rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease. Kyung-Ann Lee, Bo Young Kim, Sung Soo Kim, Yun Hong Cheon, Sang-Il Lee, Sang-Hyon Kim, Jae Hyun Jung, Geun-Tae Kim, Jin-Wuk Hur, Myeung-Su Lee, Yun Sung Kim, Seung-Jae Hong, Suyeon Park, Hyun-Sook Kim. Korean J Intern Med 2024;39:855-864.

8. A pilot study of skin barrier function in patients with systemic sclerosis and primary Sjögren’s syndrome. Kyung-Ann Lee, Sooyoung Kim, Ho-Yeon Song, Moon Kyun Cho, Hyun-Sook Kim. J Rheum Dis 2024;31(4):244-252.

Educational Background

(2004.3-2008.2) Bechelor, Chung-Ang university (Major: Life science)

(2009.3-2013.2) M.D. College of Medicine, Gachon university

(2021.3-2024.8) on PhD course, College of Medicine, Gachon university

Professional Career

(2014.3-2020.2) Resident/Clinical fellow, Department of Internal Medicine, Gachon University Gil Medical Center

(2020.3-2021.2) Clinical fellow, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital

(2021.3-2024.2) Clinical assistant professor, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Gachon University Gil Medical Center

(2024.3- ) Assistant professor, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Gachon University Gil Medical Center

Research Field

Systemic sclerosis

Inflammatory myositis

Ankylosing spondylitis

CTD PH

Papers, Books, etc. presented or published by your name

Yeo J, et al. Flare prediction after tapering the dose of tumour necrosis factor inhibitors in patients with axial spondyloarthritis: A nationwide cohort study. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2025;64(3):1155-1161.

Won Y, et al. Transition from parenteral treprostinil to selexipag aiming at hemodynamic targets in pulmonary arterial hypertension. Clin Hypertens. 2025;31(1):e5.

Yeo J, et al. Quantitative interstitial lung disease scores in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: longitudinal changes and clinical implications. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2023;62(11):3690-3699

Yeo J, et al. Utility of the breath-holding test in patients with systemic sclerosis. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2022;61(10):4113-4118.

Yeo J, et al. Angiographic characteristics of vasculopathy in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and systemic sclerosis. Sci Rep. 2022;12(1):9051.

Yeo J, et al. Pulmonary arterial hypertension due to antiphospholipid syndrome initially mimicking chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Clin Hypertens 2022; 28(1): 10.

Educational Background

2004 – 2010: B.S. in Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

2013 – 2015: M.S. in Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

2018 – 2021: M.D. in Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Professional Career

2020-2024: Assistant professor, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine

2024-2025: Visiting scholar, Advanced Lung Disease and Transplant Program, Inova Fairfax Hospital, VA, USA

2025- : Associate professor, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine

Research Field

Interstitial lung disease

Pulmonary hypertension associated with interstitial lung disease

Lung transplantation

Papers, Books, etc. presented or published by your name

Discrepancy between pulmonary arterial wedge pressure and left ventricular end diastolic pressure in patients with interstitial lung disease, JHLT Open. 2024 Sep 29:6:100160e, 1st author

Serial Pulmonary Hemodynamics in Patients with IPF Listed for Lung Transplant, Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Feb 10. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202411-2157OC, 2nd author

Performance of the FORD Versus Other Available Models for the Noninvasive Prediction of Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients with Interstitial Lung Disease, Lung. 2025 Jan 22;203(1):27, 1st author