Lee Sang Yup

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

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.