Editorial Board

Editor-in-chief

Je Kyung Seong, Seoul National University College of Veterinary Medicine, South Korea
Je Kyung Seong, DVM, Ph.D, is currently a professor of Lab of Developmental Biology and Genomics at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the Seoul National University. He also serves as the Director of Korea Mouse Phenotyping Center (KMPC), funded by Ministry of Science and ICT in Korea.
Dr. Seong has been actively involved in several international committees and associations. He has joined the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) International as an Ad Hoc Consultant since 2004 as well as has been elected to the AAALAC International’s Council on Accreditation in Pacific Rim in 2007. He has also worked as a General Secretary for Asian Mouse Mutagenesis Resource Association (AMMRA) since 2012 and has served on the steering committee of International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC). He is the Korean representative for Asian Federation of Laboratory Animal Science (AFLAS) and a chairman of working committee for an official Journal of AFLAS.
As a leading scholar in the fields of animal model generation and mouse genetics, Dr. Seong has authored 218 journal articles and several book chapters. He has published in several leading journals, including Nature Genetics, PNAS, Nature Communications, and Nature Cell Biology. He also serves on editorial boards including Mammalian Genome.
Dr. Seong has led KMPC, which is one of the largest nation-wide mouse phenotyping platforms in Korea, as a Director since 2014 and has comprehensively strived to opening pathways for a broader understanding of national and global mouse genetics. He on behalf of KMPC has also contributed to building and strengthening international collaboration with IMPC where KMPC is an institutional member.
Dr. Seong held an assistant professor at the Department of Laboratory Animal Medicine at the College of Medicine at Yonsei University in 1996. He joined the College of Veterinary Medicine at the Seoul National University in 2002 and received early tenure in 2004.
Dr. Seong earned a Ph.D in 1995 and MS in 1992 in Veterinary Embryology and Histology from Seoul National University, and a BS in 1990 from Seoul National University. (ORCID 0000-0003-1177-6958)

Associate editors 

Jinwoong Bok, Yonsei University, South Korea
Jinwoong Bok is a professor and chair of the Department of Anatomy at Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea. Jinwoong and his lab focus on understanding how our hearing works. Using genetically engineered mouse (GEM) models that mimic the hearing defects observed in humans, his laboratory investigates the developmental and pathological mechanisms that contribute to hearing function. His long-term goal is to gain a comprehensive understanding of hearing biology and apply it to develop methods to prevent or restore hearing loss in humans. (ORCID 0000-0003-1958-1872 )

Hye-Jin Boo, Jeju National University College of Medicine, South Korea
Hye-Jin Boo is an assistant professor at the Department of Histology, Jeju National University College of Medicine in Jeju, South Korea. Hye-Jin and her laboratory focus on defining the pathophysiological mechanisms that affect tissue injury and the interaction of organ systems in chronic inflammatory diseases. Her research aims to understand the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory diseases and define therapeutic targets for their treatment, utilizing genetically engineered or disease-specific mouse models, ex vivo culture systems, and cutting-edge techniques. (ORCID: 0000-0002-9700-5443)

Sung-Dae Cho, Seoul National University, South Korea
Sung-Dae Cho is a professor at School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, in Seoul, South Korea. Sung-Dae and his laboratory focus on Identification of molecular targets and signaling pathways related to apoptosis and metastasis in oral cancer and developments of natural product-derived anticancer drugs. (ORCID 0000-0001-8670-9579)




Jongki Cho, Chungnam National University, South Korea
Jongki Cho is a professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Chungnam National University, in Daejeon, South Korea. His laboratory focuses on the generation of transgenic pigs for xenotransplantation and human disease-model animals, stem cells, animal reproduction, and related disorders. Recently, they have been studying the roles of exosomes in reproduction, including ovulation, fertilization, implantation, parturition, and uterine endometrial organoids. (ORCID 0000-0002-8431-0457)


Jae-Hoon Choi, Hanyang University, South Korea
Jae-Hoon Choi is a professor at the department of life science, college of natural sciences, Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea.  His laboratory is focusing on understanding the function of innate immune cells including dendritic cells and macrophages in inflammatory cardiovascular diseases using mouse models, and also studying about the interactions between immune and non-immune cells during the normal and pathological conditions of cardiovascular systems. (ORCID 0000-0002-5265-3463


Sungsoon Fang, Yonsei University College of Medicine, South Korea
Sungsoon Fang is a Professor at Severance Biomedical Science Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea. Sungsoon and his laboratory focus on the mechanisms of how hormonal signaling pathways that control energy intake and expenditure maintain physiological homeostasis using animal system. His goal aims to identify pharmaceutical targets that reduce energy intake and/or increase energy expenditure to develop novel drug discovery for the treatment of chronic metabolic syndromes including obesity and diabetes. (ORCID 0000-0003-0201-5567)


Jung Joo Hong, University of Science & Technology, South Korea
Jung Joo Hong is an associate professor at the University of Science & Technology, and the principal researcher at Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), South Korea. Jung Joo Hong earned a Ph.D from the University of Minnesota and had the opportunity to join the Division of Microbiology, Pathology, and immunology at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University as a postdoctoral fellow. Jung Joo Hong and his lab focus on the development of non-human primate model for human infectious diseases. Our ultimate goal is to use this model to determine the efficacy of a vaccine platform or therapy in an NHP model prior to clinical testing, while simultaneously understanding the mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions. (ORCID 0000-0002-9795-6513) 

In Koo Hwang, Seoul National University, South Korea
In Koo Hwang is a professor at the Seoul National University College of Veterinary Medicine in Seoul, South Korea. In Koo and his laboratory focus on brain ischemia, metabolic diseases, and aging in relation to adult hippocampal neurogenesis. Morphological evidences in most biological studies are used to give the conceiving evidences to the research. In Koo has been Editor of Laboratory Animal Research since 2017. (ORCID 0000-0002-0533-4638)



Jeong Ho Hwang, Korea Institute of Toxicology, South Korea
Jeong Ho Hwang is a Principle Investigator of Korea Institute of Toxicology and Associate Professor at the University of Science & Technology. His laboratory focuses on the immunology based on pig to Non-human primate xenotransplantation and Establishment of large animal model baring human disease based on toxicology. Recently, they have been studying the efficacy and safety of new drugs and indentifying the mechanism of actions of test item using animal models.(ORCID 0000-0002-4763-8373)


Young-Min Hyun, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea
Young-Min Hyun is a professor and chair of the department of Anatomy at Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. Professor Hyun’s laboratory is interested in investigating the mechanisms of leukocyte motility and functionality on inflammation and infectious disease models using bio-optical techniques including two-photon intravital microscopy, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), 3D imaging of whole organs, and other current optogenetic tools combined with epigenetic analysis. (ORCID 0000-0002-0567-2039)


Hosung Jung, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea
Hosung Jung is an associate professor at the Department of Anatomy, Yonsei University College of Medicine. He is a developmental neurobiologist by training and has editorial experience in the field of molecular neurobiology. Research in his laboratory focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying morphogenesis and axon guidance using the visual systems of Xenopus tropicalis and mouse as models. (ORCID 0000-0002-5059-8050) 



Joohee Jung, Duksung Women's University, South Korea
Joohee Jung is a professor at College of Pharmacy, Duksung Women’s University in South Korea. She and her laboratory focus on the anticancer effect of natural products via GPER signaling in various xenograft models (gastrointestinal cancer-derived organoid xenograft model, patient-derived xenograft model, spontaneous metastasis model, etc.). Additionally, she is interested in developing an AI-based platform for chemical hazards prediction/assessment. She served as editorial board members of reputed journals. (ORCID 0000-0001-9124-9052)


Kyoungmi Kim, Korea University, South Korea
Kyoungmi Kim is an associate professor at the Department of Physiology, Korea University College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea. Kyoungmi and her laboratory focus on improvement of genome editing tools based on the CRISPR system. As well as, she is studying the development of human disease mouse model using engineered genome editing tools. Her goal is aimed at the development and therapeutic research of mouse models of human diseases using newly developed gene editing tools. (ORCID 0000-0003-0941-806X)


Hyuk Wan Ko, Yonsei University, South Korea
Hyuk Wan Ko is an associate professor at the Dept. of Biochemistry, Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. His laboratory focus on unveiling the molecular mechanism of mammalian specific Hedgehog signaling and role of primary cilia in mouse development and disease. Using the mouse genetic model system, his goal aims to understand the molecular basis of primary cilia related Hedgehog signaling. He further pursues to reveal the pathogenesis of human genetic disorders, ciliopathies, which are caused by defects in cilia structure or function. (ORCID 0000-0003-1753-1900 )


Daekee Lee, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Daekee Lee has long experience in the development of transgenic mice and genetically targeted mice, and has been trained in mouse genetics. A study on the effect of the EGFR signaling system on cell proliferation and death was conducted using a colon cancer model, and new genes related to metastasis and their functions are being studied at the cell and mouse level. (ORCID 0000-0001-8130-2059)



Ho Lee, National Cancer Center, South Korea