RESEARCH FIELDDr. Euiheon Chung is a professor in the biomedical science and engineering department at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) and the director of the Gliopathic Pain Research Center (GPRC). His research aims to create translational neurophotonic technologies to satisfy unmet clinical needs based on biomedical engineering approaches. With functional optical imaging and neuromodulation, Dr. Chung’s current research focuses on neurovascular diseases and neuropathic pain.
EDUCATIONPost-doc (Mar. 2007 - Jan. 2011) Boston MA, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for tumor biology (Mentors: Rakesh K. Jain, PhD & Dai Fukumura, MD PhD)
PhD (Sep. 2001- Feb. 2007) Cambridge MA Harvard - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) Medical Engineering/Medical Physics (MEMP) program (Advisor: Peter T. C. So, PhD)
MS (Feb. 1998) Daejeon KOREA, Aerospace Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology(KAIST)
BS (Feb. 1996) Daejeon KOREA, Aerospace Engineering and Minor in Physics, Summa Cum Laude, KAIST
WORK EXPERIENCEDepartment of Biomedical Science and Engineering (BMSE) & School of Mechanical Engineering Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) Biomedical in vivo Opto-scopy Laboratory (BiO-scopy lab)
Affiliation: Biomedical Science and Engineering; Adjunct Faculty, AI Graduate School, GIST
Visiting professor, Chonnam National University Hospital (since Nov. 2016)
4/07– 4/09 Nanopoint Inc. (Live cell imaging solution company), Honolulu, HI
Technical Consultant: - Advised the development of high-resolution imaging system for life science - Helped the company build standing-wave total internal reflection microscope based on the following papers. (Chung E. et al., Optics Letters, 2006 and Chung E. et al., Biophysical Journal, 2007).
6/06- 3/07 Cambridge Devices (a medical devices startup), Cambridge, MA, Intern Engineer and Technical Consultant:- Built, characterized prototype polarization-based imaging devices for skin cancer margin detection to guide surgeons during excisional biopsies of squamous/ basal cell carcinoma and melanoma - Performed preclinical experiments with human skin cancer specimens from New England Medical Center
Win 1994 Daewoo Heavy Industry, Aerospace Division, Changwon, Korea. Intern, Remotely Piloted Vehicle group for Korean Domestic Airplane Design Project
WORK EXPERIENCEAthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA
Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
RESEARCH FIELDDrug development for alleviating ion channel-derived pain sensation
Understanding of hippocampal circuit alteration in neurodegeneration
Characterization of neural coding in olfactory and vomeronasal system
Development of next-generation optical stimulation in multielectrode array
