Ki-Bum Lee received his B.S. from Kyung Hee University (1998), M.S. from KAIST (2000), and Ph.D. from Northwestern University (2004), and is currently serving as Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Scripps Research Institute (2004-2007). His research topics mainly include Nanobiotechnology, Nanomaterials Synthesis, Nanoparticle Synthesis, Cancer Biology, Regenerative Medicine, Cancer Cell Biology, Nanoparticles, Cell Biology, Biomaterial Engineering. A recipient of the prestigious NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (2009) and multiple honors including the MRS Graduate Student Award (2003) and Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Award (2013), he leads interdisciplinary initiatives such as the NSF IGERT on Biointerfaces and directs cutting-edge work at the intersection of nanotechnology, stem cell science, and biomedical engineering. Through his leadership at Rutgers’ Institute for Advanced Materials and the Stem Cell Research Center, Dr. Lee bridges fundamental nanoscience with therapeutic innovation, advancing platforms for targeted drug delivery, neural regeneration, and cancer diagnostics.
