Jiwon Choi
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Biography
Dr. Jiwon Choi received the PhD degree in biochemistry and bioinformatics with Prof. Sukjoon Yoon at the Sookmyung Women’s university, in Seoul, Korea (2010). For her PhD thesis, she performed research work on advanced computer-aided drug discovery for metabolic diseases. She had postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Bioinformatics and Molecular Design (2010-2011) in the areas of biochemical and molecular techniques and computational biology. Dr. Jiwon Choi then moved on and joined the Bioinformatics and Molecular Design Research Center (BMDRC) in 2011, leading structure-based drug design and VS-pharmacophore projects including the discovery and optimization of small-molecule inhibitors of protein-protein interactions for several targets. Currently, she is the Leader of Drug Discovery of the BMDRC.
Abstract
Abstract : Natural products used as a chemical library for protein-protein interaction targeted drug discovery