Jonghyuck Park, PhD

Assistant Professor

Dr. Jonghyuck Park earned his Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences and Biotechnology from the Korea University, Seoul South Korea. He received his Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Korea University Medical School. During his early work at the Korean University, he utilized biomimetic hydrogels with various environmental cues to engineer an inhibitory microenvironment for nerve regeneration after neural trauma. He then joined the Ph.D. program in Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at the Purdue University. During his graduate studies under the guidance of Dr. Riyi Shi, his work focused on the role of oxidative stress in pathogenesis of neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury. After getting his Ph.D. degree, Dr. Park moved to the University of Michigan Biomedical Engineering from the Purdue University, where he worked in Dr. Lonnie Shea’s lab as a postdoctoral research fellow. At the Michigan, Dr. Park focused on developing immunomodulatory strategies for the functional regeneration after neural trauma.

In August 2019 Dr. Park joined the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy as an assistant professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Building off of a foundation from his experiences, Dr. Park research group is focusing on immunoengieering utilizing tools of tissue engineering, biomaterials, neural engineering, gene delivery, and nanotechnology to advance high-throughput therapeutic strategies to treat neural trauma and neural trauma-mediated neuroimmune disorders. He is also a faculty associate of the Spinal Cord & Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC) at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.

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