Speaker

YONGTAE KIM, PhD

CEO, MEPSGEN
Seoul, Republic of Korea
Dr. Kim is a CEO at Mepsgen Co., Ltd. and an Associate Professor of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Langer Laboratory of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. In 2011, he received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Carnegie Mellon, he was a researcher at R&D Divisions of Hyundai-Kia Motors and Samsung Electronics. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Seoul National University. He has authored multidisciplinary research articles in major journals including Nature Communications, PNAS, Nano Letters, and ACS Nano. He won NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, NSF CAREER Award, AHA National Scientist Development Grant Award, and Young Investigator Award in Nanobiotechnology from Springer Nature. He also won Innovative Nano Research Award from the Ministry of Science and ICT of South Korea.
Speaking In
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Wednesday, June 7
MEPSGEN, a biotech company founded by Dr. YongTae Kim and Dr. Robert Langer in 2019, develops and…
Session Room 104B