Study on transgenic and knockout techniques in mouse, Study
on stress-disease relationship by molecular analysis of
stress proteins, Study on functional role of heat shock
protein 70(HSP70), Stress genome anatomy project, Study on
the analysis of Northeast asian genome, Study on in vivo
effect of electromagnetic wave.

1983~ Professor, Seoul National University
1981~1982 Visiting Scientist, Department of Molecular
Genetics, NIH, USA
1983~1997 Chief, Institute for Molecular Medicine,
Cancer Research Center,
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
1985~ Member of American Society for Microbiology, USA
1987~ Member of New York Academy of Science, USA
1990~1992 Guest member researcher, Rockefeller
University, New York, USA
1995~ Executive director of permanent committee,
Korea Transgenic Research Foundation, Seoul,
Korea
1997~ Director, ILCHUN Molecular Medicine Institute,
Seoul National University Medical Research
Center, Seoul, Korea
1997~ Member of International Molecular Biology Network
(IMBN)
2000~ President & CEO of Macrogen Inc., Seoul, Korea
2000~ Vice President, Korea Bio Venture Association,
Seoul, Korea
2003~ Vice President, Korean Society for Molecular and
Cellular Biology,
Seoul, Korea
2004~ President-Elect, Korea Genome Organization(KOGO)

2001 Korea National Assembly Science and Technology
Award, The Scientist of the Year
2003 Korea Science and Technology Science Award, KOFST