Jongyoon Han, Ph.D.

Professor, PI of the Micro-Nanofluidic BioMEMS group at RLE at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speaker

Dr. Jongyoon Han is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a B.S.(1992) and an M.S.(1994) degree in physics from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Cornell University in 2001. He received the NSF CAREER (2003) and the Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award (ACS, 2009). His current research is focused on engineering innovative microfluidic solutions to various biomanufacturing challenges, including upstream and downstream bioprocessing of CHO and HEK 293 cells, assays for critical quality attributes (CQAs) for cell therapies, and methodologies for safety assurance. He is currently the lead Principal Investigator for MIT’s participation in NIIMBL (The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals). He is also a co-lead PI for CAMP IRG in SMART Centre, Singapore, where novel CQAs for cell therapies are being developed.