Department of Microbiology and Immunology

History

- 1979 Mar. Department was opened.
- 1983 Feb. Dr. Yoonho Kook (MD, PhD) was appointed as a Full-time instructor
- 1985 Apr. Dr. Yoonho Kook left for a three-year military service as a Medical Officer
- 1986 Dec. Dr. Yoonho Kook moved to Department of Microbiology, Seoul National University School of Medicine
- 1991 Mar. Dr. Inhak Choi (MD, PhD) was appointed as a Full-time instructor
- 1996 Mar. Dr. Inhak Choi was appointed as an assistant professor after three-year of military service as a
________ _Medical Officer
- 1996 Apr. Dr. Inhak Choi was appointed as a Chairman of the department
- 2000. Mar. Dr. Inhak Choi was appointed as an Aassociate professor
- 2000 May. Dr. Sae-Gwang Park (MD, PhD) was appointed as a Full-time instructor
- 2001 May. Dr. Inhak Choi visited Mayo Clinic in USA as a visiting scientist for two years
- 2002 Oct. Dr. Sae-Gwang Park was appointed as an Assistant professor.
- 2004 Oct. Dr. Il-Whan Choi (PhD) was appointed as a Full-time instructor
- 2005 Oct. Dr. Su-Kil Seo (PhD) was appointed as a Full-time instructor
- 2006 Oct. Dr. Il-Whan Choi was appointed as an Assistant professor
- 2007 Apr. Dr. Sae-Gwang Park was appointed as an Associate professor, Dr. Su-kil Seo was also appointed as ________ _an Assistant professor
- 2007 Jun. Dr. Sae-Gwang Park visited Chicago University in USA as a visiting scientist for two years
- 2008 Mar. Dr. Inhak Choi was appointed as a Professor
- 2013 Apr. Dr. Sae-Gwang Park was appointed as a Professor,
- 2011 Jan. Dr. Il-Whan Choi visited USDA in USA as a visiting scientist for one year
- 2011 Apr. Dr. Su-kil Seo was appointed as an Associate professor
- 2012 Apr. Dr. Il-Whan Choi was appointed as an Associate professor
- 2013 Jan. Dr. Hyunkeun Song (PhD) joined the department as an Assistant professor

Faculty

Inhak Choi, M.D., PhD, Professor_________miccih@inje.ac.kr__ Tel : 051-890-6724
Sae-Gwang Park, M.D., Ph.D., Professor ___micpsg@inje.ac.kr__Tel : 051-890-6797
Su-Kil Seo, Ph.D., Associate Professor_____sseo@inje.ac.kr___ Tel : 051-890-6434
Il-Whan Choi, Ph.D., Associate Professor___cihima@inje.ac.kr__Tel : 051-890-6461
Hyunkeun Song, Ph.D., Assistant Professor_kali71@inje.ac.kr__ Tel : 051-890-6465

Education

1. Lecture and laboratory work for undergraduate students: Microbiology, Immunology, Infectious Diseases
2. Lecture for graduate students: Tumor Immunology, Transplant Immunology, Virology

Research activity

1. Inhak Choi, M.D., Ph.D.
- Defining the nature of physiologic role of immune checkpoints in immune resistance using variety of cellular and molecular biologic technologies.
- Developing some strategies to identify new immune checkpoints which act as a negative regulator by exploring big data of RNA sequences from cancer tissues and clinical data of cancer patients.
- Validating the target candidates functionally and clinically through using a variety of spontaneous mouse cancer models, and human CTL clones and gene-modified cancer cell lines.

2. Sae-Gwang Park, M.D., Ph.D.
- Development of tumor immunotherapy based on therapeutic antibody
- Mechanism of tumor metastasis
- Molecular and immunological mechanisms for tumor heterogeneity

3. Il-Whan Choi, Ph.D.
- Investigating the immunological mechanisms underlying inflammatory responses
- Developing anti-inflammatory substances from natural products

4. Su-Kil Seo, Ph.D.
- Developing novel therapeutic strategies for graft-versus-host-disease
- Developing new drug for T- cell lymphoma
- Using murine allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) models to investigate clinically important problems in HSCT and to evaluate novel therapeutic strategies which can be translated into clinical practice.

5. Hyunkeun Song, Ph.D.
- Developed the key regulatory molecules to regulate the physiological role of NK receptors in autoimmune disease and immunotherapy.

Contact Us

Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Inje University College of Medicine
Bokji-Ro 75 Busanjin-Gu
Busan, 614-735
Tel: +82-51-890-6734