Prof.
Sun Wook Hwang

Bio

Tel : 02-320-2726
E-mail : sunhwang@korea.ac.kr

Education

1996.03 – 2001.02 Ph.D. in Pharmacology, Graduate School, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (P.I. Dr. Uhtaek Oh)
1994.03 – 1996.02 M.S. in Pharmacology, Graduate School, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
1990.03 – 1994.02 B.S.College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Professional Experience

2023.11 – present Vice-Dean for Research, Korea University College of Medicine
2023.12 – present Head of Department of Convergence Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine
2023.11 – present Review Board, STEAM Research Project of National Research Foundation of Korea
2020.02 – present Head of Department of Biomedical Sciences, Graduate School, Korea University
2018.02 – present Chairperson of General Affairs, the Korea Pain Research Consortium
2018.01 – present Scientific Program Committee Member, the Korean Physiological Society
2016.02 – present Editorial board, Animal Cells and Systems
2015.12 – present Deputy-Director, BK21 graduate program of Korea University College of Medicine
2015.08 – present Associate Editor, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
2005.03 – present Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor, Korea University College of Medicine, Korea

2023.01 – 2024.12 Planning Committee Chair, the Korean Society for Brain and Neuroscience
2021.04 – 2023.11 Comminication Committee Chair, the 10th Federation of the Asian and Oceanian Physiological Societies Congress
2020.11 – 2023.10 Review Board, National Research Foundation of Korea
2020.01 – 2022.12 Scientific Committee vice-Chair, the Korean Pain Research Society (IASP chapter)
2020.02 – 2023.11 Head of Department of Medicine, Graduate School, Korea University
2018.04 – 2019.12 Planning Committee Member, the Korean Pain Research Society (IASP chapter)
2018.01 – 2019.12 Local Organizing Committee of 10th World Congress of International Brain Research Organization
2018.01 – 2019.12 Scientific Committee Chair, the Korean Biophysical Society
2017.03 – 2017.09 International Program Committee Member, International Conference of Glycobiology of Nervous System
2016.01 – 2016.12 Financial Affairs Committee Member, the Korean Society for Brain and Neuroscience
2015.06 – 2016.07 Organizing Committee of the meeting of Asia Oceania Society for Comparative Endocrinology
2014.12 – 2015.12 Scientific Program Committee, the Korean Society for Brain and Neuroscience
2014.11 – 2016.01 Lead Guest Editor, Mediators of Inflammation
2014.01 – 2014.12 General Affairs Committee, Translational Research Institute for Incurable diseases, Korea University
2014.01 – 2015.12 Adjunct Professor, Department of Physiology, Korea University College of Medicine, Korea
2014.01 – 2014.12 Award Committee Member, Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Korea
2014.01 – 2014.02 Grant reviewer for U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation
2013.08 – 2013.12 Scientific Committee, Translational Research Institute for Incurable diseases, Korea University, Korea
2012.09 – 2013.12 Current Neuropharmacology, Guest Editor
2012.06 – 2014.02 ISRN Pain, Editorial board
2012.02 – 2013.01 Visiting Research Scholar, Harvard Medical School, MA, USA (P.I. Dr. Clifford Woolf)
2011.08 – 2013.07 Adjunct Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Korea University College of Medicine, Korea
2011.05 – 2012.08 Organizing Committee of the New World of Anion and Cation Channel Conference, Jeju 2012
2010.07 – 2010.12 Secretary, the Korean Society for Brain and Neuroscience
2010.06 – 2012.06 Co-secretary, the Korea Pain Research Consortium
2010.02 – 2012.02 Adjunct Professor, Korea University College of Science and Technology, Korea
2008.04 – 2009.11 Local Organizing Committee, The 22nd Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry, Busan
2008.12 – 2010.07 General Executive, the Korean Society for Brain and Neuroscience
2007.05 – 2007.12 Neurobiology subcommittee, Brain Research Promotion Law (Braintech 21), Korea
2006.12 – 2011.10 Steering Committee of the Medical Research Institute, Korea University Ansan Hospital, Korea
2002.09 – 2005.07 Research Associate, The Scripps Research Institute, CA, USA (P.I. Dr. Ardem Patapoutian)
2001.03 – 2002.08 Postdoc, National Creative Research Initiatives, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2001.09 – 2002.02 Lecturer (Physiology), College of Pharmacy, Duksung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
2001.03 – 2001.08 Lecturer (Anatomy and Physiology), Graduate School of Health Science and Social Welfare, Sahmyook University