Education

• Postdoctoral fellow/Instructor in medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, with Dr. Stephen Elledge, USA
• Postdoctoral fellow, UT Southwestern Medical Center, with Dr. Leon Avery, USA
• Ph.D.: in Genetics & Development, UT Southwestern Medical Center, with Dr. Leon Avery, USA
• M.S.: in Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, with Dr. Dongeun Park, South Korea,
• B.S.: in Molecular Biology, Seoul National University, South Korea

Professional Experience

• 2016-Current: Assistant/Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, South Korea

Honors and Awards

• 2026 Paper of the Year Award, Korean Society For Gerontology
• 2025 Blue Ribbon Lecture, Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology
• 2023 Amgen-KAST Biotechnology Award, Korean Academy of Science and Technology
• 2017 POSCO Science Fellowship (Chum-am Science Fellowship), POSCO TJ Park Foundation
• 2011 Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship, Howard Hughes Medical Intitute (HHMI) Fellow
• 2008 DeLill Nasser Award, Genetics Society of America

Research Interests

• My overarching research goals are to systematically indentify the regulatory networks underlying stress responses related to aging, such as senescence and autophagy, and to define their roles in age-related diseases and aging

Publications (Max 5)

• Joung J, Heo Y*, Kim Y*, Kim J*, Choi H, Jeon T, Jang Y, Kim EJ, Lee SH, Suh JM, Elledge SJ, Kim MS#, and Kang C# (2025) Cell enlargement modulated by GATA4 and YAP instructs the Senescence-Associated Secretory Phenotype. Nature Communications 16: 1696
• Kim J*, Lee Y*, Jeon T*, Ju S, Kim JS, Kim MS, and Kang C# (2025) Autophagy-dependent splicing control directs translation toward inflammation during senescence. Developmental Cell 60(3), 364-378
• Kim Y*, Jang Y*, Kim MS, and Kang C# (2024) Metabolic remodeling in cancer and senescence and its therapeutic implications. Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism 35(8), 732-744
• Rho K*, Noh J*, Kim Y, Jang Y, Kim J, Choi H, Lee Y, Ji M, Kang D, Kim MS, Paik MJ, Chung J, Kim JH# and Kang C# (2023) Lysosomal control of senescence and inflammation through cholesterol partitioning. Nature Metabolism 5, 398-413
• Lee Y*, Kim J*, Kim MS*, Kwon Y, Shin S, Yi H, Kim H, Chang MJ, Chang CB, Kang SB, Kim VN, Kim JH, Kim JS, Elledge SJ, Kang C# (2021) Coordinate regulation of the senescent state by selective autophagy. Developmental Cell 56(10), 1512-1525