Koh Gou Young

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Koh Gou Young
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BornNovember 18, 1957 [1]
Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, South Korea
CitizenshipSouth Korea
Alma mater Chonbuk National University (Ph.D. 1991)
Known for TIE2-activating antibody
Awards Ho-Am Prize in Medicine (2018), Asan Award in Medicine (2012)
Scientific career
Fields Angiogenesis, lymphangiogenesis, adipogenesis, cardiogenesis
Institutions Institute for Basic Science
KAIST
Korean name
Hangul
고규영
Revised Romanization Go Gyu-yeong
McCune–Reischauer Ko Kyu-yŏng

Koh Gou Young is a researcher from South Korea studying organ vasculature and lymphatic vessels with an interest in angiogenesis, lymphangiogenesis, adipogenesis, and cardiogenesis. His research has contributed to the publication of more than 200 journal articles, [2] including multiple publications on how Tie2 deficits are related to sepsis, [3] blood-retinal barrier damage, [4] and an imbalance of intraocular pressure in Schlemm's canal which induces glaucoma. [5]

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He is a distinguished professor at KAIST and the founding director of the Institute for Basic Science Center for Vascular Research.

Education

Koh received an M.D. and PhD in 1983 and 1991, respectively, from Chonbuk National University Medical School in Jeonju.

Career

Koh worked in the US for five years as a research fellow at Cornell University and then as a research associate at Indiana University. [6] Upon returning to Korea in 1995, Koh started as an assistant professor and finished as an associate professor in Chonbuk National University Medical School before teaching at Pohang University of Science and Technology as an associate professor from 2001 until 2003. From 2003 to 2010 he was a professor in KAIST in the Department of Biological Science before becoming a distinguished professor in 2011 in the Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering. [7] He became the founding director of the IBS Center for Vascular Research in July 2015; their first in the field of basic medical sciences. [8] He became a scientific member at the Max Planck Institute at Meunster [9] in 2016 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Korea in 2022. [10]

He was on the editorial boards of Blood [11] and Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology [12] and is currently on the editorial board at Cancer Research . [13]

Honors and awards

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  2. ↑ "Leading the first IBS Center in basic medical sciences: Director Gou Young Koh, Center for Vascular Research". Institute for Basic Science. 22 September 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2018. Throughout his research career, he has published about 230 papers in highly distinguished SCI journals.
  3. ↑ Han, Sangyeul; Lee, Seung-Jun; Kim, Kyung Eun; Lee, Hyo Seon; Oh, Nuri; Park, Inwon; Ko, Eun; Oh, Seung Ja; Lee, Yoon-Sook; Kim, David; Lee, Seungjoo; Lee, Dae Hyun; Lee, Kwang-hoon; Chae, Su Young; Lee, Jung-hoon; Kim, Su-jin; Kim, Hyung-chan; Kim, Seokkyun; Kim, Sung Hyun; Kim, Chungho; Nakaoka, Yoshikazu; He, Yulong; Augustin, Hellmut G.; Hu, Junghao; Song, Paul H.; Kim, Yong-in; Kim, Pilhan; Kim, Injune; Koh, Gou Young (2016). "Amelioration of Sepsis by Tie2 Activation-Induced Vascular Protection". Science Translational Medicine. 8 (335): 335ra55. doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.aad9260. PMID   27099174. S2CID   206690100 . Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  4. ↑ Park, Do Young; Lee, Junyeop; Kim, Jaeryung; Kim, Kangsan; Hong, Seonpyo; Han, Sangyeul; Kubota, Yoshiaki; Augustin, Hellmut; Ding, Lei; Kim, Jin Woo; Kim, Hail; He, Yulong; Adams, Ralf H.; Koh, Gou Young (16 May 2017). "Plastic roles of pericytes in the blood–retinal barrier". Nature Communications. 8: 15296. Bibcode:2017NatCo...815296P. doi:10.1038/ncomms15296. PMC   5440855 . PMID   28508859.
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  7. ↑ "Faculty". KAIST Department of Biological Sciences. Retrieved 16 April 2018. Gou Young Koh (고규영) Graduate School of Medical Science & Engineering (GSMSE), KAIST
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  9. ↑ "Organisation". Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine. Retrieved 16 April 2018. External scientific members: Professor Dr. Gou Young Koh: Center for Vascular Research, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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  26. ↑ 박, 병립 (3 August 2011). "KAIST 고규명 교수 이달의 과학기술자상" (in Korean). Korea JoongAng Daily . Retrieved 16 April 2018. ... KAIST 고규영 교수(사진 왼쪽)를 `이달의 과학기술자상` 8월 수상자로 선정했다.
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  29. ↑ "고규영 교수 화이자의학연구상 수상" (in Korean). Pohang University of Science and Technology. 27 March 2002. 생명과학과 고규영 교수가 제3회 '화이자의학연구상' 본상 수상자로 선정되었다.
  30. ↑ "포항공대 고규영 교수 '화이자의학연구상'" (in Korean). Kyongbuk Ilbo. 21 March 2002. Retrieved 16 April 2018. 대한의학회는 제3회 화이자의학연구상 본상 부문수상자로 포항공대 생명과학부 고규영 교수를, 젊은의학자상 부문 수상자로는 울산의대 서울중앙병원 강덕현 교수를 각각 선정했다고 20일 밝혔다.
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