Jihyeon Yeom

Short Biography

Jihyeon Yeom is an assistance professor at Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Her lab is focusing on developing new chiral nanomaterials for next-generation bio- and spectroscopic-analysis creating Bio Big Data. She received her Ph. D. at the University of Michigan in 2017 where she researched chiral nanomaterials with Prof. Nicholas Kotov. She then conducted her postdoctoral research with Prof. Robert Langer at MIT. Her work at MIT focused on the design of chiral nanostructures for drug delivery and their chiral specific interactions with biological systems such as cellular membranes and proteins. During her career, she has been recognized with numerous awards including MIT Hacking Medicine First Place Winner (2018) and Charles G. Overberger Research Award (2016). She also has been selected as a TJ Foundation POSCO Science Fellow in 2020 with her research on blood-based disease early diagnosis using novel chiral nano platforms.