Dong Hoon Hwang

Administrative Professor, Ph.D

• Research interests : Spinal cord injury, Stroke, Neural stem cell, induced Pluripotent stem cell

• My main interest is the stem cell therapy for central nervous system disease. Currently, I go deep into the role of intrinsic and extrinsic factors in supporting the survival, differentiation and migration of grafted  stem cells.

• Contact : drhdh@ajou.ac.kr

Min Jung Kwon

Research Professor, Ph.D

• Research interests : spinal cord injury, Neuron-Macrophage interaction for axon growth

• My main interest is potential role of macrophages in axon regeneration. My currently works on the contribution of macrophage-derived molecules to pro-regenerative activity base on Neuron-Macrophage interaction model

• Contact : kwonmj@aumc.ac.kr

Young Joo Oh

Ph. D candidate

• Research interests :  spinal cord injury (cervical 4 hemiection model), transcription factor c-jun, stat3 activation in CNS

• I am studying transcription factor c-jun and stat3 activation from in the red nucleus after hemisection in cervical 4 and I am also studying the interaction between stat3 and socs3 that occur after cervical 4 hemisection.

• Contact : joo62126@naver.com

Hee Hwan Park

Ph. D candidate

• Research interests : spinal cord injury, hydrogel, neural stem cells

• I have been working in the field of central nervous system (CNS) injuries, especially spinal cord injury. To treat CNS injuries, I utilize the injectable hydrogel and neural stem cell transplantation in the injured spinal cord.​

• Contact : phh@ajou.ac.kr

Hyung Soon Kim

Ph. D candidate

• Research interests : CNS regeneration, spinal cord injury, ischemic stroke

• I investigate repair of CNS after injury. My research focus is on the inflammatory responses that occurs in rodent for the enhanced regeneration. I currently apply ischemic stroke model as well to figure out immune responses in brain.

• Contact : enifla@ajou.ac.kr

Xue Lian Jin

MD, Ph. D candidate

• Research interests : white matter ischemia, oligodendrocyte, renovascular hypertension

• My main interest is white matter ischemia and I am currently looking into mechanism of hypoxia-induced axon degeneration in renovascular hypertensive rat model.

• Contact : jinxuelian12@ajou.ac.kr 

Yeo Jin Seo

M.S candidate

• Research interests : Macrophage, Axonal regeneration, neuron-macrophage co-culture

• A main interest is the role of macrophages in axonal regeneration. My study is to find molecular determinants of macrophages with a pro-regenerative phenotype for axon growth using neuron-macrophage co-culture model

• Contact : yeojin3803@ajou.ac.kr

Simay Geniscan

M.S candidate

• Research interests : Spinal cord injury, Neural Stem Cells, Hydrogel

• My main interest is spinal cord recovery with neural stem cells following spinal cord injury.    I am currently studying on hydrogels in correlation with molecular and cellular processes involved in the recovery of spinal cord.

• Contact : simay@ajou.ac.kr

Seung Ah Jee

Intern

• Research interests : Axonal regeneration, Macrophage

• My main interest is the role of macrophages in Reagent-treated cells. I am currently looking into mechanism of macrophages and steps to learn various experiments using co-culture.

• Contactat : aseungj@ajou.ac.kr

Hyo Sun An

Lab manager

• I manage the financial supports on research grants, paper works, overall administrative duties including conference, business, personnel expenses and so forth. 

• Contact : ahsss1202@nate.com