Dr. C. Justin Lee is currently a Tenured Research Scientist, serving as the Co-Director of Center for Cognition and Sociality at IBS. He has received his PhD at Columbia University in Physiology and Cellular Biophysics and bachelor degree at University of Chicago in Chemistry. He has been a leading neuroscientist researching on the subject of astrocytes, whose functions have recently been re-evaluated in numerous reports. Particularly, he has focused on astrocytes’ ability to release various transmitters (termed gliotransmitters) including glutamate, d-serine, ATP, and GABA. He discovered that astrocytes in the cerebellum produce and release GABA through MAO-B enzyme and Bestrophin-1 channel, respectively. He also demonstrated the detailed molecular mechanisms of how astrocytes release glutamate upon GPCR activation. He went on to demonstrate that the astrocytic GABA in hippocampus impairs memory in Alzheimer’s disease. His work continues to impact the field of brain research by providing novel molecular mechanisms for glia-neuron interaction. These new findings are actively applied to the field of neuropsychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative diseases, promising novel drug targets for the treatment of various neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. He has published a total of 130 papers with H-Index of 38 (total citations of 5091 as of March 2018) in major scientific journals including Nature Medicine (2014), Nature Communications (2014), Cell (2012) and Science (2010). He also received numerous prestigious awards including Kyung Ahm Prize in Arts and Sciences, 2016, FILA Basic Science Award (The Korean Academy of Science and Technology, 2014), Jang Jin Award (Korean Brain and Neuroscience Society, 2014), and Star Professor Award (The University of Science and Technology, 2013)

Dr. Jong Eun Lee, Department of Anatomy, Yonsei University College of Medicine, is neurobiochemist by training.
Her research interests lies in developing the new functional stem cell and their therapeutic potential in various neuronal disease models, and conducts various studies focusing on the neuroregeneration from CNS disease.
She has been an editorial board member for the Korean Journal of Anatomy since 2003 and now the executive editor for the Anatomy and Cell Biology since 2009, and has been an executive editor for Experimental Neurobiology since 2010.

Dr. Byung-Ok Choi is a neurologist, professor, and vice dean in the Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, and a professor in the Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Science and Technology. Also he is a faculty member in the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center and the Institute for Medical Device Management and Research Center. He is developing new therapeutic small molecules using stem cell technology, genetic editing and animal models. He also developed several types of transgenic animal models to facilitate the evaluation of new drugs, and a new drug screening platform for successful and productive research projects.

Dr. Yoonkey Nam is an Associate Professor in Bio and Brain Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He received the B.S. degree from Seoul National University in 1997, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003 and 2005, respectively. Since 2006, he has been with KAIST, where he is now an Associate Professor of Bio and Brain Engineering and principal investigator of Neural Engineering Laboratory. His current research interests include the application of micro- and nanotechnology in neuroscience, Brain-on-a-Chip technology, electrical and optical neural interface technology, and multichannel neural signal processing. He was elected as ‘The Top 100 Technologies and Leaders in 2025 Korea’ from The National Academy of Engineering of Korea in 2017.

Dr. Chang-Hwan Im is an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Hanyang University, Korea. His research interests cover various fields of computational neuroengineering, including brain-computer interfaces, noninvasive brain stimulation, and neural signal processing. He has (co)authored more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed international journals. He also serves as associate editors of Brain-Computer Interfaces and Biomedical Engineering Letters.

Dr. Jeong-woo Sohn is a principal researcher of Medical Device Development Center at Daegu-Gyeonbuk Medical Innovation Foundation in Korea. He obtained his bachelor degree in nuclear engineering, master degree in cognitive science from Seoul Nation University in Korea and a Ph.D. degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from University of Rochester, NY, USA. Then he had been trained as a post-doctoral researcher in University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA. His research interests are brain and machine interface, motor learning and statistical analysis on neural data. He is currently leading a research group of medical imaging

Dr. Jeon is trained as an engineer with emphasis in biomedical questions. He is interested in developing new tools for neuroscience research by combining microfabrication tools with biology. He has pioneered the development of microfluidic devices for primary neuron culture, stem cell culture and in-vitro models of BBB. He has extensively collaborated with neuroscientists on projects ranging from AD, PD, and stem differentiation for developing new organ-on-a-chip based drug screening platform for CNS related disorders.

Dr. Sohee Kim received her Ph.D. in mechatronics from University of Saarland in Germany, focusing on biomedical engineering. She worked at Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering in St. Ingbert, Germany as researcher, and at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA as research professor. She was assistant and associate professor in School of Mechatronics and Department of Medical System Engineering at GIST, Korea, from 2009 to 2015. Currently she is associate professor in Department of Robotics Engineering at DGIST, Korea. Her research interests include neural interfacing microdevices, implantable neural stimulation devices, and soft bioMEMS based on polymers.

Dr. In Kyoon Lyoo, psychiatrist and neuroscientist, is a graduate of Seoul National University College of Medicine. He has published a number of papers including seminal works in posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance use disorders. Brain imaging techniques as well as clinical and behavioral assessment have been extensively used in his studies. Dr. Lyoo previously worked at Harvard University and Seoul National University, and holds positions at the University of Washington, Dept. of Radiology and University of Utah, Brain Institute, besides his current tenure at Ewha.

Dr. Byung-Joo Ham is a psychiatrist in the Korea university Anam Hospital as well as a professor in college of medicine, Korea university. He is currently a vice-president of the Korea university Anam Hospital Research Institution and a managing director in Korean Society of Biological Psychiatry. He has conducted researches on mood disorders such as Major Depressive Disorder(MDD), bipolar disorder using multidisciplinary approaches, mainly including structural/functional MRI scanned neuroimaging and genetic analysis. His enthusiasm for research is in order to contribute to the development of individually tailored treatment of affect-related disorders.

Dr. Jaeuk Hwang is a psychiatrist working for Soon Chun Hyang University Hospital and neuroscientist who has research interests in anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and addiction. He has expertise in brain imaging including magnetic resonance imaging modalities. He has been working with Experimental Neurobiology as an Ad Hoc Reviewer and now as an Associate Editor for Clinical Neuroscience section.

Dr. Jin Woo Chang graduated from Yonsei University College of Medicine in 1983. He completed his neurosurgical residency and fellowship for stereotactic and functional neurosurgery at Severance Hospital, Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. For two years he has served as an exchange professor at the University of Chicago, conducting basic research in movement disorders.
Currently Dr. Chang serves as a section editor of World Neurosurgery. He is also a member of the editorial board for the official journal of World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN) as well as the official journal of the International Neuromodulation Society (INS).
In addition to his various editorial duties, Dr. Chang currently serves as the president of the Korean Neurosurgical Society (KNS) and vice-president of World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN).

Dr. Manho Kim is a neurologist by training and has dometic and international editorial and publishing experience: he is a editorial member of Scientific Reports at Nature Publishing Group, and editor of International Journal of Stem Cells, J our movement disorder, Journal of Clinical Neurology.
He is working on the the mechanism of Huntington’s disease from 1990 and collaborated with Massachusetts General Hospital Neurology, Harvard Medical School, USA. (Postdoc 1995-1999). He still pursue development of therapeutic strategy for neurodegenerative disorders at the Biomedical Research Institute, Seoul National University, Korea.

Dr. Renshaw is USTAR Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Utah, where he co-directs the Diagnostic Neuroimaging cluster within the Department of Psychiatry. He also serves as Medical Director of the VISN 19 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) at the Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Renshaw’s training as a biophysicist and psychiatrist has led to a primary research interest in the use of multinuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) neuroimaging to identify changes in brain chemistry associated with psychiatric and substance abuse disorders. Dr. Renshaw came to the University of Utah from Harvard Medical School in 2008, where he was Director of the Brain Imaging Center at McLean Hospital.

Dr. Stephen R. Dager, MD is Professor of Radiology and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington and Adjunct Professor of Radiology and Psychiatry at the University of Utah. He is Associate Director of the University of Washington Center on Human Development and Disability. Dr. Dager is a board-certified psychiatrist by training and a member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He has served on numerous NIH and other national and international scientific review committees, including as Chair of the VA Merit Review Committee for Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences and as Chair of the New Jersey Board of Governor’s Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Autism. Dr. Dager is the past Chair of the Department of Defense Vision Setting and Integration Panels, Congressional Mandated Medical Research (Combating Autism Reauthorization Act). He is on the Editorial Board for JAMA-Psychiatry (formerly Archives of General Psychiatry) and Autism Research. Dr. Dager has been continuously funded by the NIH to conduct brain imaging research investigating psychiatric and developmental disorders during the past 29 years, including several current longitudinal studies of infant brain development that utilize innovative multimodal imaging techniques to investigate brain mechanisms underlying autism.

Dr. Tae-Suk Kim is a professor of psychiatry at the Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine since 2015. He has worked as a consultation psychiatrist at Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea. He has studied neurobiological and clinical relationships between body and mind. He also has a deep interest in educating doctors to understand life and death.

Dr. Woong Sun earned his BS, MS and Ph.D degrees in molecular biology from the Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. As a postdoctoral fellow, he joined Nakamura Lab of dept. Biochemistry, Osaka University in 1997, and Oppenheim Lab of dept. Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest University in 2000. He served as assistant/associate professor from 2002 and was appointed Professor since September 2009 in the department of Anatomy, Korea University College of Medicine. Dr. Sun’s research aims to understand the mechanisms of neuron production and circuit integration during the embryonic development. Currently his studies focus on histo-mophogenesis of brain and spinal cord using stem cell research and the development of novel histological techniques. Dr. Sun is also council member of Asian-Pacific Society for Neurochemistry (APSN), and Korean Society for Brain and Neural Science (KSBNS).

Dr. Hae Chul Park is interested neural development and related diseases in the central nervous system . His research is focused on oligodendrocyte developemt and multiple sclerosis, motor neuron development and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and novel neuropeptide screening and functional analysis using zebrafish animal model. Zebrafish is one of the most famous vertebrate anmimal model and Dr. Park’s lab established techniques for the generation of KO zebrafish and transgenic zebrafish to study CNS development and diseases.

Dr. Hosung Jung is a molecular neurobiologist by training and has editorial experience in the field of molecular neurobiology. Research in his laboratory focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying morphogenesis and axon guidance using the visual systems of Xenopus tropicalis and mouse as models.

Dr. Jin Woo Kim is a developmental neurobiologist, who is interested in the development of mammalian visual system. He studied transcription factors that establishes the borders between optic neuroepithelial compartments in early embryo in the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. His current research interest is related with the intercellular communication, which specifies, maintains, and regenerates mouse retinal neurons. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea.

Dr. Kazunori Nakajima is Professor and Chair at Department of Anatomy, Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo. He graduated from Keio University School of Medicine in 1988, and subsequently completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Keio University. He then joined Prof. Katsuhiko Mikoshiba’s group as a PhD student and received his PhD in 1994 from Osaka University. After postdoctoral training, he became Research Scientist at RIKEN in 1995, and started his own lab in 1998 as Department Head and Assistant Professor at Institute of DNA Medicine, Jikei University School of Medicine. He then moved to Keio University in 2002 as Professor of Anatomy. Dr. Nakajima’s group developed the in utero electroporation technique and found several modes of neuronal migration such as multipolar migration, caudal migratory stream, climbing mode of hippocampal neurons, and 2-step migration of interneurons. His group focuses on the mechanisms underlying the development of cortical layers and neuronal circuits.

Dr. Mi-Ryoung Song is an associate professor in Gwangju Instituete of Science and Technology. Her research focuses on diverse cellular and molecular mechanisms in neural development including brain formation, neural progenitor diversity, motor neuron differentiation and gliogenesis.

Soochul Park is a neurobiologist in the field of signal transduction and neural development by training and has considerable editorial experience. He has been Chief Editor for Development at Experimental Neurobiology since 2010. He studied Ras-mediated oncogenic signal transduction at the University of Michigan and the mechanism of axonal pathfinding at the Bristol-Myers Squib Pharmaceutical Research Institute. Since his postdoctoral training, he has been interested in identifying molecular mechanism underlying diverse aspects of neural development such as neuronal cell death, neurogenesis and ependymogenesis. He is currently a full professor at the department of Biological Science, Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul.

Dr. Eun-Hye Joe has worked on behaviour and function of glial cells and blood cells in intact and injured, and how Parkinson’s disease genes affect their functions.

Dr. Chan Young Shin is a neuropharmacologist by training and has acquired various experiences in research and publishing as author and peer reviewer, as well as editorial work in both local and international scientific journals. He runs his own laboratory focusing on understanding the complex neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders at Konkuk University, South Korea. His experimental expertise include neurological disorder research and new drug development which covers cell culture, molecular biology and behavior neuroscience as screening tools among others.

Dr. Dong Woon Kim is a neuroanatomical morphologist by training and has considerable experience on glia function in health and neurodegenerative disease. He have studied the comprehensive function of microglia and astrocyte activation in neuropathic pain, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, and neurovascular diseases at Deparment of Anatomy, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. He joined Editorial Board at Experimental Neurobiology in 2017.

Dr. Hwan Tae Park is a Schwann cell biologist and his primary interest is the molecular mechanism of myelination, demyelination and peripheral nerve repair. By using cellular and molecular technologies, he is trying to dissect pathophysiological mechanism of axonal and demyelinating peripheral neuropathies and to develop diagnostic and therapeutic tools for the neuropathies.

Dr. Kyoungho Suk is currently a professor of Department of Pharmacology, Kyungpook National University (KNU) School of Medicine (Daegu, Korea), and the director of Brain Science and Engineering Institute of KNU. He obtained his Ph.D. in Immunology at University of California at Davis in 1994, and M.S. degree in Immunology at Cornell University in 1991. Prof. Suk received his postdoctoral training in the division of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, and he has been a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School between 2008 and 2009, during which he participated in large-scale experiments and systems biology approaches toward understanding of disease networks and pathways. Dr. Suk is the author of more than 200 papers published in peer-reviewed journals (h-index, 41) and holds patents on various therapeutic targets and lead compounds that could be used for the diagnosis or therapy of neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Suk is currently acting as an associate editor of J Neurosci Res, and editorial board of J Neuroinflammation, Biochem Pharmacol, etc.

Shumin Duan is a professor in Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China. His research interests focuses on the function and the mechanisms of neuron-glia interactions in health and disease. He is an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and a member of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Neuroscience Bulletin and an editorial board member in several international neuroscience journals.

Dr. Sung Joong Lee is a faculty member of Seoul National University. He studied astrocytes at the University of Alabama at Birmingham during for his Ph.D. research, and microglia at the University of Californial at San Diego during his postdoctoral training. For the past 15 years, he is dedicated on investigating neuroimmunologic function of glial cells in neurological disoders such as neuropathic pain and stroke. He is also working as a editor/editorial member of seveal Neuroscience journals including Molecular Brain, Itch and Pain, and International Journal of Neurology Research.

Dr. Sang Jeong Kim focuses on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of information storage and its related brain diseases. The cerebellar neural network is his model system to explore mechanisms of memory storage. He explores the metabotropic glutamate receptor-mediated neural plasticity in cerebellar Purkinje cells. To understand the underlying mechanism of a clinical situation such as chronic pain and schizophrenia, he also studies neural plasticity in the related neural networks. After his effort and passion in his fields, he has published outstanding papers in major journals such as Nature, Neuron, and Journal of Neuroscience, etc. He is now serving as a professor in the Department of Physiology, the director of the Memory Network Research Center, and the director of the Neuroscience Research Center at Seoul National University.

Dr. Eunji Cheong is currently an associate professor at Yonsei University. Her research group aims to understand thalamocortical circuit in controlling the sensory information processing and wake-sleep state. She has focused on the molecular mechanism to control the firing pattern of thalamocortical neurons via regulating various ion channels and synaptic inputs. Recently, she expanded her research interest to understand the thalamic glial cells tuning the activity of thalamocortical neurons. The findings can be readily applied to many cognitive impairment from sensory abnormalities and vigilance control.

Dr. Jaewon Ko is a molecular neuroscientist working on mechanisms underlying synaptic and circuit development. He is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences of Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) since 2017.

Imbalance of body weight and energy balance results in metabolic complications and mood disorders. Thus, understanding the neural systems underlying coordinated control of energy homeostasis and related psychiatric disorders is very significant. Dr. Kiwoo Kim’s lab focuses on the neural circuitry that regulates energy and mental homeostasis. Currently we are using interdisciplinary approaches including mouse genetics, cell and molecular biology, and electrophysiology to dissect molecular mechanism responsible for the regulation of brain circuit for energy and mental homeostasis.

Dr. Kang is a neuroscientist specialized in cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity and learning and memory mediated by AMPA-type glutamate receptor protein complexes in the brain. Dr. Kang’s research is highly related to the pathophysiology of neurological and psychiatric disorders related to abnormal synaptic plasticity including intellectual disability (mental retardation), dementia, depression, persistent pain, and epilepsy. He is a principal investigator in the Institute for Basic Science (IBS). He is also an adjunct professor at the Dept. of Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), and the Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).

Dr. Seung-Hee Lee is a neuroscientist studying neural circuit mechanisms for multisensory perception in the mouse model. She studied molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity in Aplysia during her Ph.D. training at the Seoul National University. She then switched her research field to the systems neuroscience and studied circuit mechanisms of visual processing in mice during her postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley. Her works have been published in Neuron, Journal of Neuroscience, Cell, and Nature. She is passionate about innovation and mentorship in pursuing scientific findings. She joined the Department of Biological Sciences at KAIST in September 2013, and she is now an associate professor in the same department.

Shawn is currently an Associate Professor in the Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Programme at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. He studied at KAIST, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) via graduate partnership program through the George Washington University Medical School. Then, he pursued postdoctoral training in the Michael Ehlers laboratory (HHMI/Duke University Medical School and later joined Duke-NUS Medical School as an assistant professor in late 2010. His research interest is to delineate the cellular and molecular underpinnings of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.

Dr. Albert Chen is an assistant professor in the Warwick-NTU Neuroscience Program. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and Ph.D. from Columbia University where he studied developmental neurobiology in the laboratory of Thomas Jessell. Albert was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Louis Reichardt at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Albert Chen's research aims to identify and characterize factors that direct the assembly and maintenance of neural circuits, and to understand how the organization of these circuits controls specific behaviors. These general issues are examined through the analysis of circuits in the cerebellum important for coordination, movement and motor learning. His lab is exploring mechanisms underlying the development and function of cerebellar circuits using genetics, imaging, and behavioral approaches.

Dr. Juan (Helen) Zhou is an Assistant professor at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program, Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore. Prior to joining Duke-NUS, Dr. Zhou was an associate research scientist at the Phyllis Green and Randolph Cōwen Institute for Pediatric Neuroscience in the Child Study Center, New York University. She did a post-doctoral fellowship at the Memory and Aging Centre, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Zhou received her Bachelor degree in Computer Science and her Ph.D. in Neuroimaging in 2007 from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her group is primarily focused on understanding human brain networks involved in cognitive functioning and associated vulnerability patterns in neuropsychiatric disorders such as dementia and psychosis using multimodal network-sensitive neuroimaging methods (MRI/fMRI/DTI/EEG).

As a physician-scientist, Jeong-Ho has a broad background in medicine, human genetics, and molecular neurobiology. He has pursued research that helps to elucidate brain function and bridge basic science discoveries in neurological diseases with human health impact since he joined KAIST as a faculty at 2012. Jeong-Ho is one of pioneer to identify brain-only mutations causing neurodevelopmental disorders such as focal malformations of cortical development. His lab currently conducts both human genetics and molecular neurobiology for the research of various neurological disorders, especially neurodevelopmental disorders. His lab also develops better diagnostic tools and therapies for these conditions.

Dr. Jong Eun Lee, Department of Anatomy, Yonsei University College of Medicine, is neurobiochemist by training.
Her research interests lies in developing the new functional stem cell and their therapeutic potential in various neuronal disease models, and conducts various studies focusing on the neuroregeneration from CNS disease.
She has been an editorial board member for the Korean Journal of Anatomy since 2003 and now the executive editor for the Anatomy and Cell Biology since 2009, and has been an executive editor for Experimental Neurobiology since 2010.

Soochul Park is a neurobiologist in the field of signal transduction and neural development by training and has considerable editorial experience. He has been Chief Editor for Development at Experimental Neurobiology since 2010. He studied Ras-mediated oncogenic signal transduction at the University of Michigan and the mechanism of axonal pathfinding at the Bristol-Myers Squib Pharmaceutical Research Institute. Since his postdoctoral training, he has been interested in identifying molecular mechanism underlying diverse aspects of neural development such as neuronal cell death, neurogenesis and ependymogenesis. He is currently a full professor at the department of Biological Science, Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul.

Dr. Young J. Oh has studied interplay between apoptosis and autophagy using both pathological and gene-based models of neurodegenerative disorders. He has also involved in developing a novel multi-modal neuroprotective drug in collaboration with GNT Pharma. In addition, he has considerable editorial and publishing experiences as the Chief Editor of Experimental Neurobiology and editorial board member of Journal of Neural Transmission.