Lee Sang Yup

• Distinguished Professor, Director and Dean, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea

PhD, Northwestern. Formerly, Founding Dean, Coll. of Life Sciences and Bioengineering. Prof., Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Eng., KAIST. Director: Bioprocess Engineering Research Centre; Bioinformatics Research Centre; Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biotech. Dean, KAIST Institutes. Fellow: AAAS; American Academy of Microbiology; Korean Academy of Science and Tech.; Society for Industrial Microbiology; Nat'l Academy of Engineering of Korea; American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. Foreign Associate, Nat'l Academy of Engineering, US. Editor-in-Chief, Biotech. Journal. Awards incl.: Nat'l Order of Merit; Merck Award for Metabolic Engineering; Scientist of the Year.