Kyung J. Kwon-Chung
Kyung J. Kwon-Chung | |
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| Born | August 16, 1933 Seoul, South Korea |
| Alma mater | Ewha Womans University University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mycology, microbiology |
| Institutions | National Institutes of Health |
| Doctoral advisor | Kenneth B. Raper |
Kyung Joo Kwon-Chung (born August 16, 1933) is a South Korean-American mycologist and microbiologist who is a distinguished investigator at the National Institutes of Health. She heads the molecular microbiology section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Life
[edit]Kwon-Chung was born on August 16, 1933, in Seoul, South Korea.[1] Her mother was a housewife.[1] Her father, Choong Ton Kwon, was a congressman representing a south east district of the northern Kyunsang Province.[1] He eventually became a defense secretary in the late 1950s to the beginning of 1960.[1] Kwon-Chung received a B.S. and M.S. (1958) in biology from Ewha Womans University.[2][1] Her graduate work involved drug resistance in E. coli.[1] During this time, she married Chung Young Muk, the son of a defense secretary.[1] At Ewha, she worked as a teaching assistant, research assistant, and eventually attained, a rank equivalent to an assistant professor.[1] Kwon-Chung received a Fulbright scholarship to pursue doctoral work in the bacteriology department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[2] She completed a Ph.D. in 1965 under doctoral advisor Kenneth B. Raper.[1] She researched Aspergillus during her doctoral studies.[1]
In 1966, Kwon-Chung joined the medical mycology section of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAD) laboratory of microbiology as a visiting Fogarty International Fellow working under Chester Wilson Emmons.[2][1] In c. 1972 , Kwong-Chung became an American citizen.[1] She became a senior investigator in the NIAID laboratory of clinical investigation in 1973 and has been the chief of the molecular microbiology section in the laboratory of clinical immunology and microbiology since 1995.[2] She is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) distinguished investigator.[2] She received honorary doctoral degree in science from the University of Wisconsin in 2009 and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Microbiology in 2017.[2] In 2024, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Kwong-Chung, Kyung Joo (March 26, 2018). "Dr. Kyung Joo Kwon-Chung (June) Oral History" (Interview). Interviewed by Victoria Harden. Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum.
- ^ a b c d e f "Kyung J. Kwon-Chung, Ph.D. | Principal Investigators". NIH Intramural Research Program. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
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- ^ "National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members". www.nasonline.org. April 30, 2024. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Institutes of Health.
- Living people
- Scientists from Seoul
- Ewha Womans University alumni
- Academic staff of Ewha Womans University
- National Institutes of Health people
- University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
- American mycologists
- Women mycologists
- 20th-century South Korean women scientists
- 21st-century South Korean women scientists
- 20th-century American biologists
- 21st-century American biologists
- 20th-century American women scientists
- 21st-century American women scientists
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- South Korean emigrants to the United States
- Naturalized citizens of the United States
- American scientists of Asian descent
- American women medical researchers
- American women microbiologists
- South Korean microbiologists
- South Korean women biologists
- 1933 births