**Sik Yoon**

Sik Yoon, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor at the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Yangsan, Korea. He has served as president of the Korean Association of Anatomists and is currently serving as the Director of the Immune Reconstitution Center of the Pusan National University Medical Research Institute. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Pusan National University, Korea, and studied immune cell biology at Washington University School of Medicine, USA, as a visiting scientist. He joined the Pusan National University School of Medicine in 2000. He pursues a broad range of research interests that include the nano-engineering of cells for biomedical applications, biomaterials, marine biology, the development and application of 3D cell culture technology for drug discovery and diagnostic tools, the development of therapeutic strategies to combat antitumor drug resistance and to modulate immune function, and synthetic biology for T cell regeneration.
