Myung Kyungjae

명경재

Born| (1968-05-04)May 4, 1968[1]

Seoul

Alma mater| Seoul National University, Brown University
Scientific career
Fields| DNA repair, DNA replication, DNA recombination and DNA damage response, cancer biology, translational research
Institutions| National Human Genome Research Institute, KAIST, POSTECH, UNIST, Institute for Basic Science
Theses|

* A normal Arg- tRNA complements the rad18x mutation in Schizosaccharomyces pome (1993)
* Isolation and characterization of KARP-1, a p53-dependent DNA-damage inducible gene (1999)

Doctoral advisor| Eric A. Hendrickson
Other academic advisors| Sang Dai Park
Korean name
Hangul|

명경재

Hanja|

明京在

Revised Romanization| Myeong Gyeongjae
McCune–Reischauer| Myŏng Kyŏngchae
Website| IBS Center for Genomic Integrity

Myung Kyungjae is a biologist researching DNA repair pathways at the molecular level. He is a Distinguished Professor at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and the Director of the IBS Center for Genomic Integrity located on the UNIST campus. He is on the editorial board of various peer-reviewed journals and is a member of multiple scientific societies.

## Contents

* 1 Education
* 2 Career
* 3 Honors and awards
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Education

Majoring in zoology, Myung received his bachelor's from Seoul National University (SNU) graduating with honors in 1991. Continuing at SNU, he then majored in molecular biology and graduated with a M.S. in 1993 after studying under Professor Sang Dai Park. He completed a Ph.D. in molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry from Brown University in 1999 under Professor Eric A. Hendrickson. His thesis was recognized with a Barry Jay Rosen Memorial Award.[2]

## Career

Myung did his postdoctoral training at Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in the University of California, San Diego from 1999 to 2002 under Professor Richard Kolodner.[3][4] He was awarded with a research fellowship from the Damon-Runyon-Winchell Cancer Research Foundation during the post-doc period.[5] His first appointment was as an investigator and section head in the Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) under the National Institutes of Health. He was promoted to a senior investigator[6][7] and section head[8] in 2009, a position he held until 2014.

In addition to his position at the National Human Genome Research Institute, he concurrently held a position at POSTECH in the Division of Molecular and Life Science as an adjunct professor from 2011 until 2014. From 2013, he worked as an adjunct professor at KAIST in the Department of Biological Sciences and at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in the School of Nano-Bioscience and Chemical Engineering. The following year he fully relocated to Ulsan City where he became a distinguished professor in the School of Life Sciences at UNIST while also becoming the founding director of the IBS Center for Genomic Integrity, a collaboration with the Institute for Basic Science.

Myung has been a guest associate editor for the journal PLoS Genetics,[9] a guest editor for Mutation Research,[10] and been on the Editorial Board for Genome Instability and Disease, Genomics,[11] Genome Integrity,[12] and Molecular and Cellular Biology. He is also a member of the American Association for Cancer Research, Genetic Society of America, Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association, Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society, Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Korean Society for Integrative Biology.

## Honors and awards

* 2017: Scholar of the Year, Genetic Society of Korea[13]
* 2014: Scientist of the Year Award, Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) and Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (KOFST)[14][15][16]
* 2013: Outstanding Service Award, KSEA Washington Metro Chapter
* 2013: US Government Service Award (10 years), NHGRI, NIH[17]
* 2012: Director of the Year, KSEA
* 2008: Bea Singer Young Investigator Award (GRC DNA damage, Mutagenesis and Cancer)
* 2008: US Government Service Award (5 years), NHGRI, NIH
* 2006: Society of Biomedical Research/Chong Keun Dang Award for achievements in biomedical research
* 2002: Sewoohue Award for Research Achievement
* 2002: Leading Korean-American, Chooang ILBO
* 2001: James Kerr Award for Research Excellence[6]
* 1999: Travel Grant Award, American Society for Microbiology
* 1999: Barry Jay Rosen Memorial Award, Brown University[2]

## See also

* Orlando D. Schärer
* Anton Gartner

## References

1. ↑ "네이버 인물검색" (in Korean). https://people.search.naver.com/search.naver?where=nexearch&query=명경재&sm=tab_etc&ie=utf8&key=PeopleService&os=3388093.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Student Handbook - Barry Jay Rosen Award". https://www.brown.edu/academics/biology/molecular-cell-biochemistry/graduate/mcb-graduate-student-handbook/student-handbook-barry-jay-rosen-award.
3. ↑ Kolodner, Richard D.; Putnam, Christopher D.; Myung, Kyungjae (26 July 2002). "Maintenance of Genome Stability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae". Science 297 (5581): 552–557. doi:10.1126/science.1075277.
4. ↑ Myung, Kyungjae; Datta, Abhijit; Kolodner, Richard D. (9 February 2001). "Suppression of spontaneous chromosomal rearrangements by S phase checkpoint functions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae". Cell 104 (3): 397–408. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(01)00227-6.
5. ↑ 최, 수영. "제 57회 초청 강연회 개최" (in Korean). Chosun University. http://www.chosun.ac.kr/user/indexSub.do?framePath=unknownboard&siteId=bk21plusbioactive&dum=dum&boardId=191489&page=1&command=view&boardSeq=247833.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Table of Contents to Candidate Profile". Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association. 2013. p. 10. https://election.ksea.org/Upload/Election2013-All.pdf.
7. ↑ "재미한인과학기술자협회 연차보고서" (in Korean). 해외한국과학기술자협회 2011 연차보고서. The Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies. p. 65. https://www.kofst.or.kr/common/bbsdown.jsp?attNm=2011 해외과협 연차보고서(최종).pdf. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
8. ↑ "KSEA Letters". Journal of the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association 45: 10. October 2014. ISBN 978-0-9911337-5-8. https://seattle.ksea.org/pdf_files/KSEALetters_Vol_43_1_2014_StevenAndSeattleYGWonUKCPosterAwards.pdf. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
9. ↑ Iraqui, Ismail; Kienda, Guy; Soeur, Jérémie; Faye, Gérard; Baldacci, Giuseppe; Kolodner, Richard D.; Huang, Meng-Er (19 June 2009). Myung Kyungjae. ed. "Peroxiredoxin Tsa1 Is the Key Peroxidase Suppressing Genome Instability and Protecting against Cell Death in Saccharomyces cerevisiae". PLoS Genetics 5 (6): e1000524. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000524. PMID 19543365.
10. ↑ Myung, Kyungjae (May 2018). "Eukaryotic 4Rs: DNA replication, repair, recombination, and damage response". Mutation Research 809: 56–57. doi:10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2018.04.002. PMID 29728263.
11. ↑ "Editorial Board". 2019. http://www.jgenomics.com/editorial.
12. ↑ "Editorial Board". http://www.genome-integrity.org/editorialboard.asp.
13. ↑ "[Award Director Kyungjae Myung selected as the GSK scholar of the Year 2017"]. 30 October 2017. https://cgi.ibs.re.kr/_prog/_board/?mode=V&no=14705&code=cgi_en_News&site_dvs_cd=cgi_en&menu_dvs_cd=0501&list_typ=A&skey=&sval=&smonth=&site_dvs=&GotoPage=4.
14. ↑ "2014 KSEA AWARDS WINNERS HAVE BEEN SELECTED" (in Korean). 8 July 2014. https://ksea.org/main/ksea-news/7/?wr_id=107.
15. ↑ 김, 동연 (7 August 2014). "한미한인 과학자들 한자리에" (in Korean). http://ny.koreatimes.com/article/20140807/868282.
16. ↑ "[재미과협 UKC2014 was held from August 6-9 with a great success"]. Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies. 15 September 2014. https://www.ultari.org/kofst/search/Search.do?a=Detail&c=control&sc=1&mc=95&pageNo=1&listSize=2&pageSize=10&searchCol=&searchText=[재미과협]+UKC2014+was+held+from+August+6-9+with+a+great+success&fromDate=&toDate=&funcTypeName=BoardNotice&fc=141&dataNo=365&associationScode=null&scpnSeq=0&code=0&manPowerDivCode=0&forumNo=19.
17. ↑ "Director Prof. Kyungjae Myung". https://cgi.ibs.re.kr/html/cgi_en/people/people_0201.html.

## External links

* IBS Center for Genomic Integrity
* Institute for Basic Science
* Kyungjae (KJ) Myung - Google Scholar
* Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA)
* Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (KOFST)
* Damon Runyon Fellowship Award Overview - Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

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