박지영 | Jiyoung Park 

• Title: Professor
• Major: Adipose tissues, ECM Remodeling, Obesity-related metabolic disease and cancer 
• Lab: Molecular Metabolism Laboratory, Buld. 110-Rm.507
• Office: Buld.110-Rm. 501-7
• Email: jpark@unist.ac.kr

Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Health Science and Technology

College of Information and Biotechnology,

Ulsan National Institutes of Science and Technology (UNIST)

• 2024.09-present     Professor, Dept. Biological Sciences, UNIST
• 2024.09-present     Professor, Graduate School of Health Science and Technology, UNIST
• 2023.02-2024.01    Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Medicine, University of California San Diego, CA, USA 
• 2022.01-2024.08    PM (Program Manager, 연구사업관리전문가), 과학기술통신부 한국연구재단 (NRF)
• 2019-2024     Associate Professor, Dept. Biological Sciences, UNIST
• 2014-2018     Assistant Professor, Dept. Biological Sciences, UNIST
• 2011-2013     Instructor, UTsouthwestern medical center, Dallas, USA

• 2011     Postdoc, UTsouthwestern medical center, Touchstone Diabetes Center, Dallas, USA
• 2007     Postdoc, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
• 2005     Ph.D., Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
• 2000     MS., Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
• 1999     BS., Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

• 2024.04   2023 UNIST Outstanding Faculty Awards (Research Part), Ulsan, Korea
• 2023.11    Award for Women in Life Science, Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Jeju, Korea
• 2010.02   Keystone Symposia Scholarship Award (Role of inflammation in Oncogenesis), Colorado, USA.
• 2009.07   Postdoctoral fellowship, Department of Defense 2008 breast cancer research program. USA.
• 2009.05   Postdoctoral fellowship, Susan G. Komen for the cure research programs. USA.(Declined due to concomitant activation of DoD Fellowship)
• 2006         Scholarship, Teaching of Molecular and cellular biology class. Seoul National University. Seoul, Korea
• 2005         Best Poster Presentation Award, Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Seoul, Korea
• 2004         Best Poster Presentation Award, Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Seoul, Korea
• 2001          Scholarship, Teaching assistance. Seoul National University. Seoul, Korea.
• 2000         Scholarship, Advanced Training Program for Biological Sciences, Korean Ministry of Education

• Molecular mechanisms linking between chronic inflammation, obesity, and cancer
• Adipose tissue biology in metabolic homeostasis, aging, and disease
• Inter-organ metabolic crosstalk via secreted proteins and extracellular vesicles
• Remodeling of extracellular matrix proteins in various fibrotic diseases