▶Kyung Min Park, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Division of Bioengineering

College of Life Sciences and Bioengineering

Incheon National University

▶Address:

119 Academy-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, 22012

Building #29 Room #509

Phone: (82) 32-835-8835; Email: kmpark@inu.ac.kr

▶Academic Background:

Ph.D., Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea (2012)

M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea (2008)

B.S., Applied Chemistry, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea (2006)

▶Professional Career:

2019-present, Associate Professor, Division of Bioengineering, College of Life Sciences

and Bioengineering, Incheon National University, South Korea

2015-2019, Assistant Professor, Division of Bioengineering, College of Life Sciences

and Bioengineering, Incheon National University, South Korea

2012-2015, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

(ChemBE), Johns Hopkins Physical Sciences-Oncology Center (PSOC),

and The Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT), The Johns Hopkins

University, Baltimore, MD, USA (Mentor: Dr. Sharon Gerecht)

▶Research Area:

Design of advanced polymeric biomaterials

Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

Engineered healthy/disease tissue models

Drug delivery systems

▶Main Publications

(Selected from 66 peer-reviewed publications; *Equal Contribution and #Co-corresponding Author):

1. S Park, KM Park, Hyperbaric oxygen-generating hydrogels, Biomaterials 182, 234-

224 (2018).

2. Y Lee*, JY Son*, JI Kang, KM Park#, KD Park#, Hydrogen peroxide-releasing

hydrogels for enhanced endothelial cell activities and neovascularization, ACS Appl.

Mater. Inter. 10, 18372-18379 (2018).

3. KM Park, D Lewis, S Gerecht, Bioinspired hydrogels to engineer cancer

microenvironment, Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng. 19, 109-133 (2017).

4. D Lewis*, KM Park*, V Tang, Y Xu, K Pak, TSK Eisinger-Mathason, MC Simon, S

Gerecht. Intratumoral oxygen gradients mediates sarcoma cell invasion, Proc. Natl.

Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 113, 9292-9297 (2016).

5. KM Park, S Gerecht, Hypoxia-inducible hydrogels. Nat. Commun. 5, 4075 (2014).