A-Rum Yoon PhD, Korea

Dr. A-Rum Yoon is currently a Research Professor of Bioengineering at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. She has received obtained MS (2004) and Ph. D. (2011) degree in Biomedical Science from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. From 2008 to 2009, Dr. Yoon has been trained as a guest researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Tsukuba, Japan, during her Ph. D. course. She has completed a postdoctoral fellowship in School of Public Health at Johns Hopkin University, Baltimore, MD, USA (2012-2014). Then, she moved back to Seoul, Korea where he work as a research professor at Hanyang University (2014-). Her research focuses on the development of oncolytic adenovirus, which selectively kills cancer cells, as the baseline platform for the development of various smart adenovirus vector systems. In this regards, her research interests include cancer gene therapy, immunotherapy, combination of viral vectors and non-viral vectors, nanomedicine, and tumor biology.