Biography:
Dr. Chung studied Veterinary Medicine and Histology at the Chungnam National University, South Korea and graduated as DVM/MS in 2003. He then joined the research group of Prof. Richard Hawkes at the University of Calgary, Canada. He received his PhD degree in Neuroscience in 2008 at the same institution. After five years of postdoctoral fellowship supervised by Dr. Wenbin Deng at the University of California Davis, USA, he obtained the tenured position of an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Title : Engineering dental pulp stem cells in inferior alveolar nerve and dentin regeneration