PI of the Team
Yong Woong Jun, PhD
KAIST
Assistant Professor (2023–present), Dept. of Chemistry
Stanford University
Postdoctoral Scholar (2019–2023), Dept. of Chemistry
PI: Eric. T. Kool
POSTECH
PhD in Chemistry (2013–2018), Postdoc (2018–2019)
PI: Kyo Han Ahn
POSTECH
BS in Chemistry (2007–2013)


Selected Awards and Honors
- Plant-Based Diet Initiative (PBDI) at Stanford, Beyond Meat®, Seed Grant Award, 2022
- Young Scientists Award, IASSF, The Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), 2018
– Oral Presentation Excellence Award, Korean Chemical Society (KCS), 2017
- Three-Minutes Scientific Speech Competition, POSTECH, 2016
- Bronze Medalist, Chemistry Competition, POSTECH, 2006
- Silver Medalist, Korean Chemistry Olympiad (KCHO), 2006
- Bronze Medalist, Korean Chemistry Olympiad (KCHO), 2005
Representative Publications
– “Possible Genetic Risks from Heat-Damaged DNA in Food” ACS Cent. Sci. 2023, 9, 1170
– “Chemical Tools for the Study of DNA Repair” Acc. Chem. Res. 2022, 55, 3495
– “Efficient DNA Fluorescence Labeling via Base Excision Trapping” Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 5043
– “Fluorescence Imaging of Mitochondrial DNA Base Excision Repair Reveals Dynamics of Oxidative Stress Responses” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202111829
– “Small Substrate or Large? Debate over the Mechanism of Glycation Adduct Repair by DJ-1” Cell. Chem. Biol. 2020, 27, 1117
– “An Excimer Clamp for Measuring Damaged Base Excision by the DNA Repair Enzyme NTH1” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 132, 7520
– “Frontiers in Probing Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers with Fluorescent Small-Molecules” ACS Cent. Sci. 2019, 5, 209
– “A Ratiometric Two-Photon Fluorescent Probe for Tracking the Lysosomal ATP: Direct in Cellulo Observation of Lysosomal Membrane Fusion Processes” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 10142
– “Addressing the Auto-Fluorescence Issue in Deep Tissue Imaging by Two-Photon Microscopy: Significance of Far-Red Emitting Dyes” Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 7696