Dr. Byung-Kwan Cho is a Distinguished Professor at KAIST and serves as the Vice President for Research at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Prior to joining KAIST, he worked as a Project Scientist in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biotechnology and Biomaterials from Seoul National University in Korea. His research focuses on systems...

Professor Paul Freemont is the co-founder of the Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation and co-founder and co-director of the National UK Innovation and Knowledge Centre for Synthetic Biology (SynbiCITE; since 2013) and co-director of the London BioFoundry (since 2016) at Imperial College London. He is also currently the Head of the Section of Structural and Synthetic Biology in the Department of Infectious Diseases at Imper...

Dr. Sang Yup Lee is Distinguished Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST. He is also the Senior Vice President for Research at KAIST. He has published 766+ journal papers, 92 books/book chapters, and 840+ patents in the field of biotechnology. He is serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Metabolic Engineering (Elsevier), and as Associate Editor and editorial board member of numerous journals in the field. He is cur...

Dr. Daehee Lee is a Principal Researcher at the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) and serves as the Head of the Synthetic Biology Research Center at KRIBB. He also holds adjunct professorships at KAIST, Sungkyunkwan University, and University of Science and Technology in Korea. Dr. Lee earned his Ph.D. in Food Engineering and Biotechnology from Seoul National University and completed his postdoctoral training in Sys...

Susan is Professor of Synthetic Biology and Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Chair in Emerging Technologies at the University of Edinburgh. She is the Director of the UK Centre for Mammalian Synthetic Biology, Director of the UKRI Engineering Biology Hub for Advanced Therapeutics and Co-director of the Edinburgh Genome Foundry for synthetic DNA synthesis and assembly. She also held a prestigious Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Coun...

Nigel is Professor of Enzymology and Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Manchester. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and co-founder / CSO of C3 Biotechnologies Ltd. He is Director of the UK Future Biomanufacturing Research Hub, Director of the Fine and Speciality Chemicals Synthetic Biology Research Centre (SYNBIOCHEM) and a former Director of the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB; 2010-2019). Under his leadership as MIB Dir...