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Jong Bhak's biosketch 20100910 version

Jong Bhak's biosketch 20090801 version


Jong Bhak is the director of Genome Research Foundation, a non-profit research organization and the head of Theragen BiO institute of TheragenEtex, a genomics and bioinformatics company for personalized medicine.
Jong Bhak used to be the director of KOBIC (Korean Bioinformation Center) since 2005, the representative national bioinformatics center of Korea.

He received his BSc. Honours in biochemistry from Aberdeen University in 1994 and his Ph.D. in BioInformatics from Cambridge University in 1997.

His main research areas have been protein structure predictioin, sequence analysis, genome comparison, DNA chip analysis, interactomics, variomics, and programming module development such as Bioperl.

He joined George Church lab at Harvard Medical School in 1998 as a postdoctoral researcher for DNA chip analyses.

He worked with Liisa Holm from 1999 until 2001. His main research interests have expanded to interactomics and network biology.

In 2001, he joined MRC-DUNN as a group leader to research aging problems (geronto-genomics) and mitochondrial functions. 

In 2003, he became an associate professor at KAIST, Korea. He worked on a broad range of bioinformatics problems with interests in computer hardware, operating systems, programming, and applications. 

He is a proponent of a borderless world and openfree information sharing. He advocates personal genomics projects and free genomics.