Home > About us > Faculty > Jeong Ok Lim Professional Preparations  1981 Keimyung University Textile Science B.S.  1988 Cornell University, Ithaca NY Polymer Science M.S.  1993 University of Massachusetts, Lowell MA Polymer Science Ph.D.  1993-1994 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Postdoctoral training Research area: Drug delivery formulation using biodegradable polymers  1993-1994 Harvard Medical School Postdoctoral training Research area: In vitro, in vivo application and analysis of drug delivery system Career  Kyungpook National University, Professor  Wake Forest University, Assistant Professor  Harvard Medical School, MIT, Postdoc Appointments  1995-1996 Senior Scientist, Sensor Technology & Research Center, Korea  1996-2001 Assistant Professor, Medical Research Institute, Kyungpook National University, Korea  2001-2004 Associate Professor, Medical Research Institute, Dept. of Medical and Biological Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Korea  2001-2002 Visiting Scientist, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology  2003-2004 Chief, International Cooperation Division Advanced Research Center for Recovery of Human Sensibility, Korea  2004-present Assistant Professor, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University Research areas: Drug delivery system, tissue engineering, micro- encapsulation of bioactive molecules using biodegradable polymeric materials, surface modification of biomaterials for target delivery of drugs, functional and biocompatible polymer formulation Research Areas  Regenerative Medicine  Drug Delivery System  Biomaterials Selected Publication  Joel Stitzel, Jie Liu, Sang Jin Lee, Makoto Komura, Joel Berry, Shay Soker, Grace Lim, Mark Van Dyke, Richard   Czerw, James Yoo, Anthony Atala, Controlled Fabrication of a Biological Vascular Substitute, Biomaterials 27(2006),   pp.1088-94  Sang Jin Lee, Grace Lim, Jang-Won Lee, Anthony Atala, and James J. Yoo, In Vitro Evaluation of a Poly(lactide-   glycolide) - Collagen Composite Scaffold for Bone Regeneration, Biomaterials 27(2006), pp. 3466-  So Young Chun, Grace Jeong Lim, Eun Kyoung Kwak, Tae Gyun Kwon, Bup Wan Kim, Anthony Atala, James J.   Yoo, Identification and characterization of bioactive factors in bladder submucosa matrix, Biomaterials 27 (2006),   pp. 3466-3472  Sang Jin Lee, James J. Yoo, Grace J. Lim, Anthony Atala, Joel Stitzel, In vitro evaluation of electrospun nanofiber   scaffolds for vascular graft application, J Biomed Mater Res A, June 21(2007), pp. 999-1008  Yumi Kim, Jeong Ok Lim, Si Yeol Kim, Jae Phil Shin, A Novel Design of One Side Coated Biodegradable Intrascleral   Implant for the Sustained Release of Triamcinolone Acetonide, Eur J of Pharm Biopharm, 70 (2008), pp.179-186  Grace J. Lim, Yozo Ishiuji, Aerlyn Dawn, Benjamin Harris, Do Won Kim, Anthony Atala, Gil Yosipovitch, In vitro and   In vivo Characterization of a Novel Liposomal Butorphanol Formulation for Treatment of Pruritus, Acta Derm   Venereol, 88 (2008), pp. 327-330  Yumi Kim, Kwak Kyung Hwa, Jeong Ok Lim, Woon Yi Baek, Reduction of Allodynia by Intrathecal Transplantation   of Microencapsulated Porcine Chromaffin Cells, Artificial Organs, 33(3) (2009), pp.240-249  Jae Pil Shin, Yong Chul Park, Ji Hae Oh, Ji Woong Lee, Yu Mi Kim, Jeong Ok Lim, and Si Yeol Kim, Biodegradable   Intrascleral Implant of Triamcinolone Acetonide in Experimental Uveitis, Journal Of Ocular Pharmacology And   Therapeutics, 25(3) (2009), pp.201-207  Sing-Muk Ng, Jeong-Yeon Choi, Hyung-Soo Han, Jeung-Soo Huh, Jeong-Ok Lim, Microencapsulation of potential   drugs with low molecular weight and high hydrophilicity, Int J Pharmaceutics (2009)  Principles of Regenerative Medicine, Anthony Atala, Robert Lanza, JamesThompson and Robert Nerem ed. Chapter   68 “Cell Based Drug Delivery” Elsevier, 2008