Prof. Jae Youl Cho
Professor
Sungkyunkwan University
Republic of Korea
Biography
Dr. Cho is a Professor at Sungkyunkwan University. His research areas are inflammatory and cancer signaling and development of anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer remedy from natural resources. His current research interests are to understand oncogene-related signaling cascade in cancer and inflammatory cells and figure out the molecular mechanism of anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer actions of naturally-occurring components. He is working as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Ginseng Research (IF = 4.0) and a director of Research Institute of Biomolecule control sponsored by National Research Foundation Korea. He received a B.Sc. in Genetic Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University and M.Sc. (Genetic Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) and Ph.D. (Molecular Immunology) from University College London in 2001. After his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Washington University. Before his moving to Sungkyunkwan University, Dr. Cho was an assistant and associate professor of Kangwon National University for 8 years from 2003. He has published 400 peer-reviewed papers and 150 registered and applied patents.
Research Interest
Development of anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer drugs