Prof. Yu-Kyoung Oh is dean of the College of Pharmacy at Seoul National University, Republic of Korea. She has been a fellow of the Korean Academy Science and Technology since 2014. She received bachelor and master’s degrees from Seoul National University, and a Ph.D. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1994. She undertook postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School from 1994 to 1996.
Her research interests focus on the delivery of nucleic acid-based drugs and the versatile design of functional nanobiomaterials. She has published more than 220 SCI papers and been granted 26 patents. She is involved in editorial activities for leading journals in the pharmaceutical field. She currently serves as a deputy editor-in-chief of the Journal of Controlled Release, an executive editor of Advanced Drug Delivery Review, and a review editor of Drug Delivery and Translational Research. She is an editorial board member of Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B.
She has served as a director-at-large of the Controlled Release Society (CRS) since July, 2020, and has been in close communication with international chapters as a CRS international chapter liaison. Currently, she is president of the Controlled Release Society Korea Chapter, and of the Korean Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology.
