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Jung Won Park, M.D., Ph.D.
Scientist and neurosurgeon
Principal Investigator
Dr. Park is a physician-scientist and board-certified neurosurgeon who asks where brain diseases begin and how they evolve. The lab uses spatial multiomics on human tissue and preclinical models to answer these questions and to move the answers toward patients.
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Education
- 2020 – 2024
- Ph.D., Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, KAIST
Advisor: Prof. Jeong Ho Lee, M.D., Ph.D. - 2018 – 2020
- M.S., Department of Medicine, University of Ulsan Graduate School
- 2008 – 2015
- M.D., Medical School, Chonnam National University
Professional positions
- 2026 – present
- Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea
- 2024 – 2026
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Life Science Research Institute, KAIST
Advisor: Prof. Jeong Ho Lee, M.D., Ph.D. - 2016 – 2020
- Residency, Department of Neurosurgery, Asan Medical Center
- 2015 – 2016
- Internship, Asan Medical Center
Board certifications
- 2020
- Board Certified Neurosurgeon, Korean Board of Neurosurgical Surgeons
- 2015
- Korean Board of Medicine (M.D.)
Awards
- Oct 2026
- Young Neurosurgeon Award (Ju-Jeong Hwa Award), The Korean Neurosurgical Society
- Sep 2026
- Agarwal Award, Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering & Biomedical Research Center, KAIST
- Feb 2026
- Sang-Il Hong Fellowship for Physician-Scientists, Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, KAIST
- Feb 2025
- Postdoctoral Fellow Scholarship, Keystone Symposia on Somatic Mosaicism in Human Development, Aging, and Diseases
- Nov 2024
- Best Oral Presentation Award, AACR-KCA Joint Conference on Precision Medicine in Cancer
- Feb 2021
- Graduate Student Scholarship in Biomedical Research, Asan Foundation
- Oct 2018
- Best Oral Presentation Award, The 58th Annual Meeting of the Korean Neurosurgical Society