SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
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Sung Jin Park
Sung Jin Park PhD
| Graduate Program | Neuroscience |
| Research Area | Sensory neurobiology, Cancer neuroscience, Metabolic cell death |
| Laboratory | Laboratory of Intercellular Communication and Brain Metabolism Laboratory |
| parksj1126@skku.edu | |
| Tel | +82-31-299-6120 |
Education & Careers
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2025 - Current: Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University
2024 - 2025: NRF Brain Pool Fellow, Dankook University
2018 - 2024: Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Massachusetts Medical School
2010 - 2018: Ph.D, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
2006 - 2010: B.S, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Research Interest
We seek scientific breakthroughs in the study of neurological and cancerous diseases by exploring the molecular and metabolic rules that govern the central and peripheral nervous systems.
Therefore, our work focuses on how these systems are built, how they function, and how they break down in disease.
To achieve this, we are pursuing several key projects.
1. Understanding peripheral neural wiring and sensory mechanisms
2. Exploring neuro/immune-cancer metabolic crosstalk
3. Investigating metabolic cell death in the brain
Therefore, our work focuses on how these systems are built, how they function, and how they break down in disease.
To achieve this, we are pursuing several key projects.
1. Understanding peripheral neural wiring and sensory mechanisms
2. Exploring neuro/immune-cancer metabolic crosstalk
3. Investigating metabolic cell death in the brain
Representative Research Achievements
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(1) Songhui Shin*, Su Yeon Myoung*, Hye Jin Cho, Seongjun Kim, Namkyu Lee+, and Sung Jin Park+, “Neural Hijacking in Cancer Metabolism: From Nutrients to Organelles”, Trends in Cancer (2025), *Equally contributed +Co-corresponding
(2) Sung Jin Park*,+, Namgyu Lee*, I-Hao Wang, Hao-Ching Jiang, Thuvan Luu, Takeshi Uemura, Kensuke Futai, Dohoon Kim, Evan Macosko, Paul L. Greer+, “The neurexin gene family regulates olfactory glomerular formation”, Cell Reports (2025), *Equally contributed, +Co-corresponding
(3) Hao-Ching Jiang*, Sung Jin Park*, I-Hao Wang, Daniel M. Bear, Alexandra Nowlan, Paul L. Greer, “CD20/MS4A1 is a mammalian olfactory receptor expressed in a subset of olfactory sensory neurons that mediates innate avoidance of predators”, Nature Communications (2024), *Equally contributed
(4) Namgyu Lee*,+, Sung Jin Park*, Mike Lange, Tenzin Tseyang, Mihir B. Doshi, Tae Yong Kim, Yoseb Song, Dong In Kim, Paul L. Greer, James A. Olzmann, Jessica B. Spinelli, Dohoon Kim+, “Selenium reduction of ubiquinone via SQOR suppresses ferroptosis”, Nature Metabolism (2024), *Equally contributed, +Co-corresponding
(5) Sung Jin Park, Su Been Lee, Yeongjun Suh, Su-Jeong Kim, Namgyu Lee, Ji-Ho Hong, Cana Park, Youngsik Woo, Koko Ishizuka, Joung-Hun Kim, Per-Olof Berggren, Akira Sawa, Sang Ki Park, “Disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) modulates neuronal stress responses by gate-keeping ER-mitochondrial Ca2+ transfer through MAM”, Cell Reports (2017)