Dept. of Biomedical Sciences
Korea University College of Medicine, Republic of Korea
Prof.
Sun Wook Hwang
Bio
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Tel : 02-2286-1204
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E-mail : sunhwang@korea.ac.kr
Education
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1996.03 – 2001.02 Ph.D. in Pharmacology, Graduate School, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (P.I. Dr. Uhtaek Oh)
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1994.03 – 1996.02 M.S. in Pharmacology, Graduate School, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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1990.03 – 1994.02 B.S.College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Employment
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2020.02 – present Head of Department of Biomedical Sciences, Graduate School, Korea University
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2020.02 – present Head of Department of Medicine, Graduate School, Korea University
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2020.01 – present Scientific Committee vice-Chair, the Korean Pain Research Society (IASP chapter)
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2018.02 – present Chairperson of General Affairs, the Korea Pain Research Consortium
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2018.01 – present Scientific Program Committee Member, the Korean Physiological Society
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2017.06 – present Editorial board, The Open Pain Journal
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2016.02 – present Editorial board, Animal Cells and Systems
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2015.12 – present Deputy-Director, BK21 graduate program of Korea University College of Medicine
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2015.08 – present Associate Editor, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
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2005.03 – present Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor, Korea University College of Medicine, Korea
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2018.04 – 2019.12 Planning Committee Member, the Korean Pain Research Society (IASP chapter)
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2018.01 – 2019.12 Local Organizing Committee of 10th World Congress of International Brain Research Organization
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2018.01 – 2019.12 Scientific Committee Chair, the Korean Biophysical Society
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2017.03 – 2017.09 International Program Committee Member, International Conference of Glycobiology of Nervous System
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2016.01 – 2016.12 Financial Affairs Committee Member, the Korean Society for Brain and Neuroscience
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2015.06 – 2016.07 Organizing Committee of the meeting of Asia Oceania Society for Comparative Endocrinology
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2014.12 – 2015.12 Scientific Program Committee, the Korean Society for Brain and Neuroscience
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2014.11 – 2016.01 Lead Guest Editor, Mediators of Inflammation
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2014.01 – 2014.12 General Affairs Committee, Translational Research Institute for Incurable diseases, Korea University
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2014.01 – 2015.12 Adjunct Professor, Department of Physiology, Korea University College of Medicine, Korea
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2014.01 – 2014.12 Award Committee Member, Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Korea
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2014.01 – 2014.02 Grant reviewer for U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation
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2013.08 – 2013.12 Scientific Committee, Translational Research Institute for Incurable diseases, Korea University, Korea
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2012.09 – 2013.12 Current Neuropharmacology, Guest Editor
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2012.06 – 2014.02 ISRN Pain, Editorial board
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2012.02 – 2013.01 Visiting Research Scholar, Harvard Medical School, MA, USA (P.I. Dr. Clifford Woolf)
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2011.08 – 2013.07 Adjunct Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Korea University College of Medicine, Korea
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2011.05 – 2012.08 Organizing Committee of the New World of Anion and Cation Channel Conference, Jeju 2012
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2010.07 – 2010.12 Secretary, the Korean Society for Brain and Neuroscience
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2010.06 – 2012.06 Co-secretary, the Korea Pain Research Consortium
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2010.02 – 2012.02 Adjunct Professor, Korea University College of Science and Technology, Korea
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2008.04 – 2009.11 Local Organizing Committee, The 22nd Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry, Busan
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2008.12 – 2010.07 General Executive, the Korean Society for Brain and Neuroscience
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2007.05 – 2007.12 Neurobiology subcommittee, Brain Research Promotion Law (Braintech 21), Korea
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2006.12 – 2011.10 Steering Committee of the Medical Research Institute, Korea University Ansan Hospital, Korea
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2002.09 – 2005.07 Research Associate, The Scripps Research Institute, CA, USA (P.I. Dr. Ardem Patapoutian)
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2001.03 – 2002.08 Postdoc, National Creative Research Initiatives, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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2001.09 – 2002.02 Lecturer (Physiology), College of Pharmacy, Duksung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
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2001.03 – 2001.08 Lecturer (Anatomy and Physiology), Graduate School of Health Science and Social Welfare, Sahmyook University
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian, my postdoctoral mentor, jointly with Dr. David Julius, was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine!
- Subjects: Discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch