Professor email
Shelby 806
(205) 996-6938

Research and Teaching Interests: Biomaterials, Tissue engineering

Office Hours: By appointment

Education:

• B.S., Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, Textile Engineering
• M.S., Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, Fiber and Polymer Engineering
• Ph.D., Rice University, Bioengineering
• Peter and Ruth Nicholas Postdoctoral Fellow, The Richard Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology and the Department of Chemistry, Rice University

Dr. Ho-Wook Jun is the director of the graduate program in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the School of Medicine at UAB. Dr. Jun received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Rice University in 2004. From 2004-2006, he was the Peter and Ruth Nicholas Postdoctoral Fellow at the Richard Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology and in the Department of Chemistry at Rice University. In 2006, he joined the UAB faculty. Dr. Jun is also a co-founder and chief scientific officer of Endomimetics LLC, a company that develops bionanomatrix coatings for cardiovascular stents and other medical implants.