About Neornat
Leadership
Nam Suk Woo
Founder / Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer & Chief Technology Officer
- Professor, Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea (Current)
- Director, Functional Transcriptome Research Institute, The Catholic University of Korea (Current)
- B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University
- Post-doctoral Fellow, Lab of Pathology, NCI, NIH, USA
- Senior Scientist, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
- More than 254 SCI publications
- 28 patent applications and registrations
- Basic Medical Science Award, National Academy of Medicine of Korea (Pfizer Medical Research Award), 2014
- Minister of Health and Welfare Award, 2015
- Minister of Environment Award, 2013
- Former reviewer, Ho-Am Prize in Medicine
- Former reviewer for KOSDAQ technology-special listing in RNA therapeutics
Park Chang Won
Director, Head of Regulatory Science
- Former Research Officer, Ministry of Food and Drug Safety
- (General Toxicology, Neurotoxicology, Organ System Drugs, Anti-Infective and Anticancer Drugs, Review Coordination, Hazardous Substance Analysis, Cosmetics Research, Oncology Products, Pharmacology, Cardiovascular Imaging Devices, Medical Device Research)
- Ph.D. in Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University
- Prime Minister Commendation, Ministry of the Interior and Safety, 2009
- Expert in non-clinical drug safety studies
- Expert in safety and efficacy evaluation for pharmaceuticals and medical devices
Kim Sang Yean
Head of Non-Clinical Drug Development
- Ph.D. in Tumor Biology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea
- Major in RNA Cancer Biology
- Major in Targeted RNA Therapy
- 7 SCI papers including Oncogene, 3 patent applications
- Expert in modified mouse lung cancer analysis
- Lead for macrophage RNA immunotherapy development
- Lead for siRNA mix therapeutics R&D
- Lead for GLP toxicology and PK/PD evaluation.
Na Min Jeong
Head of Efficacy and Lead Compound Development
- Ph.D. in Tumor Biology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea
- Major in DNA Repair & Cancer Biology
- Major in RNA Variation & Cancer
- 4 SCI papers including Experimental Molecular Medicine, 3 patent applications
- Expert in real-time mouse liver cancer imaging analysis
- Lead for targeted therapeutics against novel DNA repair enzymes
- Lead for non-clinical efficacy evaluation
Yoon Jeong Hwan
Head of Digestive Cancer RNA Therapeutics Development
- Clinical Instructor, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea (Current)
- Ph.D. in Tumor Biology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea
- Experience in early gastric cancer diagnosis development
- 50 SCI papers including Cancer Communications, 13 patent applications
- Expert in gastric cancer early diagnosis kits
- Expert in targeted anticancer therapeutics for gastric tumorigenesis
- Lead investigator for efficacy, lead compound development and validation in gastric cancer therapeutics