LEADERSHIP
Dr. Joon Won Park received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1988, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University. He was appointed as an assistant professor at POSTECH in 1990, and supervised 35 doctoral students until his retirement in February 2022. He published more than 100 papers in academic journals such as J. Am. Chem. Soc., Nano Letters, Analytical Chemistry, Langmuir, PNAS, and Nature Communications. He served as a Head of Department of Chemistry, a head of BK program, a dean of Sciences, and a Provost of POSTECH, and also served as a president of academic societies. In the early 2000s, he proposed a method to self-assemble cone-shaped polymers, nicknamed NanoCone, on the surface, and showed that it could be used to produce high-performance DNA microarrays, protein microarrays, and lateral flow assay kits. In particular, it has been shown that coating Nanocones on a probe of an atomic force microscope can increase the precision and reproducibility in the force measurement. The scientific progress has led to the development of highly sensitive quantification of various biomarkers without amplification or labeling, and for the case of a single point mutated DNA biomarker, quantification of up to 3 copies in a single test is possible.
He majored in biology at Korea University and completed the management program at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in 2012 and 2017.
After serving as a head of the marketing headquarters at JW Pharmaceutical and Handok Co., Ltd., he worked as the vice president of BBB Inc.
With over 30 years of experience in IVD industry, he is leading the operations and strategies of NB Postech Co., Ltd., and is in charge of global marketing, quality management system (QMS), and supply chain management.
He received his bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Pusan University of Foreign Studies, and his master's degree in industrial engineering from Pusan National University. He worked as a researcher at Busan Software Promotion Agency and a system engineer at Industrial Engineering Research Information Center. He joined NB Postech Inc. in 2006 and served as COO/QMR. He participated in obtaining KGMP and ISO 13485 related to the production of lateral flow assay kits, and is currently leading production of NanoCone coated slides and MutS AFM probes.
He is a professor of Business Administration at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, USA, and a Conrad N. Hilton Distinguished Professor. Professor Choi studied engineering at UC Berkeley, received a Ph.D. in business administration from UCLA Anderson, and worked at the Boston Consulting Group and Harvard Business School. Professor Choi has shown outstanding achievements in education, as evidenced by his receipt of the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2019. He also serves as a co-founder, director, or advisor to food, software, and biotech companies, and has distinguished himself in entrepreneurship-related education and academic activities, while also providing great assistance to various companies.
- He is a University Professor at the Institute of Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. Professor Hiterdorfer is a renowned scholar in the field of scanning probe microscopy, including atomic force microscopy. For the past 25 years, he has hosted the Linz Winter Workshop, which provides an opportunity for renowned scholars and students in related fields to present and discuss their research results, and also runs Winter School, where students can participate directly and learn how to use related equipments.
He is a professor at the Congenital Disease Center of Seoul St. Mary's Hospital. He completed his undergraduate course at the Catholic University of Korea's Department of Medicine, and received his master's and doctoral degrees in clinical pathology from the same university. He has been a clinical director of Department of Laboratory Medicine since 2013, and has received Korean Red Cross President's Award, Minister of Health and Welfare's Award, and Academic of the Year Award at LMCE International Conference. He is actively conducting research in the fields of diagnostic blood, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, stem cell differentiation, and aging, and is actively participating in academic societies such as Korean Society of Hematology, Korean Society for Quality Assurance, and Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine.