Ick Chan Kwon

Dr. Ick Chan Kwon is the Co-Founder of DoriNano and a Tenured Principal Research Scientist of Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Dean of KU-KIST Graduate School, Korea University as well as an Affiliated Professor in Dept. of Bioengineering, University of Washington Seattle. He was a Presidential Scholar at KIST-DFCI On-Site-Lab in Dept. of Cancer Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. 

After a post-doctoral training at Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery in Univ. of Utah, he joined KIST where he started his research on polymeric nanoparticle-based drug delivery system for antibiotics, anticancer drugs, and gene therapy. He also pioneered in research filed of Theragnosis, by combining molecular imaging and drug delivery system with smart nano-probes. He served as a president of the Korean Society of Molecular Imaging and served as an Editor for Asia of the Journal of Controlled Release (Elsevier). He is a fellow of The Korean Academy of Science & Technology and a senior member of The National Academy of Engineering of Korea.

He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Dept. of Textile Engineering, Seoul National University and his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Univ. of Utah.