Seung Bum Park is a Professor of Chemistry Department and Director of CRI Center for Chemical Proteomics at Seoul National University. He was born in Seoul in 1970. He received his BS (1993) and MS (1997) in Chemistry from Yonsei University, Korea and his Ph.D. (2001) in Bioorganic Chemistry from Texas A&M University. After three years of post-doctoral training at Harvard University under the guidance of Prof. Stuart L. Schreiber, he was appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Chemistry Department at Seoul National University (2004) and promoted to the tenured Associate Professor (2008) and full Professor (2013). His research interests are in the fields of chemical biology including molecular diversity, fluorescent bioprobe, phenotypic screening, target identification for drug discovery targeting protein-protein interaction. Seung Bum serves as grant committees and scientific advisory board members for various journals and research organizations. He won a number of awards and found bio-venture SPARK Biopharma, Inc. (2016).
The main focus of his research is the identification and development of new bioactive chemical properties, which allow us to study the complex biological system as well as to utilize the new properties as potential therapeutic agents (drugs), through interdisciplinary approaches; Organic Chemistry, Bioassay, and Chemical Biology.
Design and synthesis of diverse and complex small molecules through Diversity Oriented Synthesis (DOS)
Development of new high-throughput screening for biological evaluation
Chemical Biology for the Application of identified bioactive small molecules