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Sung Wook Choi

 

Department of Biotechnology
The Catholic University of Korea (Sung-Sim Campus)
Office: Dasol 521, +82-2-2164-4449
Fax: +82-2-2164-4865 / Email: choisw@catholic.ac.kr

Education

 
Yonsei University
B.S. 1998
Chemical Engineering
Yonsei University
M.S. 2000
Chemical Engineering
(Adviser: Woo- Sik Kim)
Yonsei University
Ph.D 2004
Chemical Engineering
(Adviser: Woo- Sik Kim, Jung-Hyun Kim)
 

Professional Experience

 

2004.03-2006.09

Senior researcher

LG Cable, R&D Center

2006.10-2007.12

Research professor

Department of Chemical Engineering, Yonsei University

2008.01-2010.08

Postdoctoral fellow

Department of Biomedical Engineering Washington University in St. Louis, MO

2010.09-2016.08

Assistant professor

Department of Biotechnology The Catholic University of Korea

2016.08-present

Associate professor

Department of Biotechnology The Catholic University of Korea

 

Specialties/Research Areas

 

Synthesis of uniform microspheres using a simple fluidic device
- Uniform hydrophilic and hydrophobic microspheres
- Temperature-regulated drug release system based on phase-change materials

Fabrication of uniform microbeads with controlled pores for therapeutic cell delivery
- Microbeads with a controllable hollow interior and porous wall
- Uniform, porous microbeads with controlled pore size

Fabrication of scaffolds with inverse opal structure for tissue engineering
- Crystallization of uniform microspheres into cubic-closed packed lattice
- Hydrophilic, hydrophobic, and composite scaffolds from biodegradable materials
- Encapsulation of active agents (drugs and growth factors) in a scaffold
- Growth of blood vessels in scaffolds with different pore sizes