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Ju-Chan Park, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Synthetic & Programmable Advanced Cell Engineering Lab, GSMSE, KAIST

Ju-Chan Park leads SPACE Lab's work on context-aware genome editing, generative AI for cell engineering, and hPSC-based disease modeling & drug screening. He completed his Ph.D. at the Seoul National University College of Pharmacy (Prof. Hyuk-Jin Cha), followed by postdoctoral research at the SNU Medical Research Center (Prof. Sangsu Bae) and Harvard Medical School (Prof. Vikram Khurana), before joining KAIST GSMSE as Assistant Professor in 2026.

Status

2026 – Present Assistant Professor, GSMSE, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

2025 – 2026 Postdoctoral Researcher, Visiting Scholar, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

2023 – 2026 Postdoctoral Researcher, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

2018 – 2023 Ph.D., College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

2013 – 2018 B.S., Department of Life Science / Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering / Integrative Biotechnology (triple major), Sogang University, Seoul, Korea

Grants

09/2024 – Present Postdoc Grow-type Joint Research — National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

05/2024 – Present Sejong Science Fellowship — National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

03/2019 – 02/2023 Global Ph.D. Fellowship — National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

Awards

2024

KAGE Young Scientist Award — Korean Association for Genome Editing

2023

Chungwoo Award — Seoul National University, College of Pharmacy

Best Learning-lab Project 2023 — Korea Institute of Human Resources Development (KIRD)

2022

Best Oral Presentation, Young Scientist Award — Korean Society for Stem Cell Research (KSSCR)

Best Presentation Award, Young Scientist Program — Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (KSBMB)

Best Research Award — Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (KSBMB)

Young Investigator's Research Award — Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology (KSMCB)

2021

Howol Songam Next Generation Academic Award — Howol Songam Foundation

2020

2020 Bio-Venture Competition, 3rd Prize — Foundation for Medical Innovation

SPACE Lab is recruiting its founding members for 2026. If you're interested in genome engineering, generative AI for cell engineering, or hPSC-based disease modeling, we'd love to hear from you — reach out at jcpark9212@kaist.ac.kr.

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