Meet the new members of the Editorial Board

Young-Tae Chang

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Young-Tae Chang was born in Busan, Korea, in 1968. He studied chemistry in Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH, Korea) and received his BS in 1991. After one and half years of army service in Korea, he started his graduate study at POSTECH and received a PhD in 1997 under the supervision of Prof. Sung-Kee Chung, working on the divergent synthesis of all possible regioisomers of myo-inositol phosphates. He did his postdoctoral work with Prof. Peter Schultz at UC Berkeley and The Scripps Research Institute. In 2000, he was appointed assistant professor at New York University and promoted to associated professor in 2005. He received the NSF Career award in 2005 and his research interests have been chemical genetics, molecular evolution, and artificial tongues. In September 2007, he moved to the National University of Singapore and Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC). He runs the Medicinal Chemistry Program of NUS as the leader, and Lab of Bioimaging Probe Development at SBIC, Biopolis.

John Koh

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John Koh was born in 1967 and obtained his BS degree from West Chester University in 1989. He went on to Columbia University where he graduated with an MS degree in 1990 followed by a PhD in 1994. His postdoctoral work as an American Cancer Society Fellow (1994–1996) took place at the University of California at Berkeley, after which he joined the faculty at the University of Delaware. He is currently Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Delaware. The Koh Group focuses on the design, synthesis and use of new molecules in a variety of biomedical projects ultimately aimed at the treatment of genetic disease. The aim is to design useful properties of molecules and this involves a variety of techniques including molecular and cellular biology, organic chemistry and computer-aided design. Particular areas of interest in the group at present are: molecular rescue of genetic mutations, ligand-receptor engineering and spatiotemporal control of gene expression. He has served on the Advisory Board of Molecular BioSystems since 2005 and we are pleased to welcome him now to the Editorial Board of the journal.

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