Eunjoon Kim

Eunjoon Kim is a professor of KAIST and director of Institute for Basic Science (IBS). He graduated from Busan National University in 1986, received master's degree at KAIST in 1988, received PhD degree at Michigan State University in 1994, and worked at Harvard Medical School as a postdoctoral fellow during 1995-1996. His current researches focus on molecular organization of neuronal synapses and synapse dysfunction-related psychiatric disorders.

• 2013. POSCO Chungam Award, POSCO
• 2012. Inchon Award, Dong-A Ilbo
• 2012. Life Science Award, Korean Society for Molecular and Cell Biology
• 2011. Best Research Award, KAIST

• Eunjoon, Kim. "Google Scholar". Google Scholar. 

• 1982. 3 – 1986. 2 B.S., Dept of Pharmacology, Busan National University, Korea
• 1986. 3 – 1988. 2 M.S., Dept of Biological Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea
• 1991. 9 – 1994. 12 Ph.D., Dept of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University

• Kim, Eunjoon. "Michigan State University". 

• 1988. 3 – 1991. 8 Research Associate, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Korea
• 1995. 1 – 1997. 2 Postdoc, Dept of Neurobiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School.P.I.: Morgan Sheng
• 1997. 3 – 2000. 2 Assistant Professor, Dept of Pharmacology, Busan National University, Korea.
• 2000. 3 – 2014 Assistant, Associate, & Full Professor, Dept of Biol. Sci., KAIST, Korea.
• 2003. 7 – 2012.5 Director, National Creative Research Initiative Center for Synaptogenesis, Korea
• 2012. 6 – 2014 Director, Center for Synaptic Brain Dysfunctions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), KAIST, Korea

• Eunjoon, Kim (2012). "Autistic-like social behavior in Shank2-mutant mice improved by restoring NMDA receptor function". Nature. 486: 261–265. doi:10.1038/nature11208.