Wonpil Im
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Wonpil Im
Presidential Endowed Chair in Health, Science, and Engineering
Professor of Biological Sciences, Bioengineering, and Computer Science and Engineering
2002                  Graduate School Scholarship Award of Excellence
2003 - 2005       NSF CTBP Postdoctoral Fellow
2007                  Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
2011                  January Biophysical Newsletter Profile
2011                  ACS HP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
2011                  J. Michael Young Undergrad Advisor Award
2011 - 2019       Associate Editor of BMC Biophysics
2011 - present   President of Korean Biophysicists Meeting in the Biophysical Society
2012 - 2019       Member of Membrane Protein Structure and Dynamics Consortium
2013 - 2015       Meredith Docking Scholar
2014 - 2020       Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports
2015                  University Scholarly Achievement Award
2016 - 2022       KIAS scholar
2017                  Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (Humboldt foundation)
2019 - 2020       Editorial Board Member of Journal of Biological Chemistry
2019                  Lehigh CAS Dean's Research Award
2021                  Lehigh Libsch Research Award



Soohyung Park
Research Scientist
Biological Sciences
Yiwei Cao
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biological Sciences

Donghyuk Suh
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biological Sciences
Abhinav Gupta
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biological Sciences

Shweta Kumari
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biological Sciences
Sana Akhter
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biological Sciences

Chang Liu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biological Sciences
L. Ponoop Prasad Patro
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biological Sciences

Hwayoung Lee
Staff Scientist
Biological Sciences

Sang-Jun Park
Graduate Student
Computer Science and Engineering
Nathan R. Kern
Graduate Student
Computer Science and Engineering

Han Zhang
Graduate Student
Biological Sciences
Lingyang Kong
Graduate Student
Biological Sciences

Sudarshan Lamichhane
Graduate Student
Biological Sciences
Turner Brown
Graduate Student
Bioengineering

Bibek Acharya
Graduate Student
Bioengineering
Zigang Song
Graduate Student
Biological Sciences

Lauren Paolucci
Undergraduate Student
Bioengineering
Jonathan Kim
Undergraduate Student
Bioengineering



Jinhyuk Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Bioinformatics
(11/05 - 7/08)
Thenmalarchelvi Rathinavelan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Bioinformatics
(11/05 - 4/09)

Kyuil Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Bioinformatics
(9/09 - 5/12)
Zhaowen Duan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Bioinformatics
(12/12 - 11/13)

Jong Cheol Jeong
Graduate Student / Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Bioinformatics
(8/12 - 8/14)
Emilia L. Wu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Computational Biology
(8/11 - 7/15)

Yifei Qi
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Computational Biology
(8/12 - 7/16)
Dhilon S. Patel
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biological Sciences
(6/14 - 7/17)

Sun Hee Jeon
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biological Sciences
(8/17 - 8/18)
Huisun Lee
Research Scientist
Biological Sciences
(4/11 - 2/19)

Ya Gao
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biological Sciences
(9/18 - 8/19)
Jumin Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biological Sciences
(5/18 - 3/22)

Jongtaek Kim
Visiting Professor
ROKAFA
(8/21 - 6/22)
Yeol Kyo Choi
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biological Sciences
(9/18 - 7/22)

Kye Won Wang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biological Sciences
(1/21 - 9/22)
Hugo Guterres
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biological Sciences
(8/18 - 8/23)

Jae Hong Shin
Research Scientist
Biological Sciences
(2/23 - 2/24)
Rakwoo Chang
Visiting Professor
University of Seoul
(1/24 - 8/24)



Taehoon Kim
Graduate Student
Center for Bioinformatics
(8/06 - 11/11)
Huan Rui
Graduate Student
Center for Bioinformatics
(8/07 - 7/13)

Sunhwan Jo
Undergrad/Graduate Student
Molecular Biosciences
(8/06 - 8/08 - 7/13)
Xi Cheng
Graduate Student
Center for Computational Biology
(8/10 - 7/15)

Andrew H. Beaven
Graduate Student
Chemistry at KU
(8/11 - 7/17)
Jumin Lee
Graduate Student /
Biological Sciences
(8/13 - 5/18)

Chuqiao Dong
Graduate Student
Mechanical Engineering
(1/18 - 5/20)
Seonghoon Kim
Graduate Student
Biological Sciences
(8/14 - 7/20)

Shasha Feng
Graduate Student
Biological Sciences
(8/18 - 9/23)
Seonghan Kim
Graduate Student
Bioengineering
(7/19 - 3/24)

Janghee Hong
Visiting Graduate Student
University of Seoul
(1/24 - 8/24)

Reaid Hasan
Graduate Student (Master)
Chemistry
(7/18 - 5/19)
Yue Lyu
Graduate Student (Master)
Computer Science and Engineering
(9/18 - 5/19)

Praveer Narwelkar
Graduate Student (Master)
Computer Science and Engineering
(6/18 - 8/19)
Ross Gunderson
Graduate Student (Master)
Physics
(5/18 - 8/19)



Vidyashankara G. Iyer
Undergraduate ResearchAssistant
Chemistry
(4/06 - 5/07)
Kevin C. Song
High School / Undergraduate ResearchAssistant
2010 Goldwater Scholar
2010 K-INBRE Undergaduate Scholar
Chemical Engineering
(5/07 - 7/12)

Danielle Stuhlsatz
Undergraduate ResearchAssistant
2011 K-INBRE Undergaduate Scholar Microbiology
(4/09 - 6/12)
Phillip Morris
Undergraduate ResearchAssistant
2011 K-INBRE Undergaduate Scholar
Chemical Engineering
(4/09 - 5/12)

Nathan R. Kern
Undergraduate ResearchAssistant
2013 K-INBRE Undergaduate Scholar
Molecular Biosciences
(5/12 - 5/15)
Eder M. Dávila-Contreras
Undergraduate Research Assistant
McNair Scholar
IMSD Scholar
Molecular Biosciences
(12/12 - 8/15)

Suwoo Kim
Undergraduate Research Assistant
K-INBRE Star Trainee
Molecular Biosciences at KU
(8/14 - 5/17)
Chris Sohn
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Biological Sciences
(5/18 - 5/19)

Amer Iftikhar
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Biological Sciences
(5/18 - 5/20)
Amanda Rubin
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Bioengineering
(6/20 - 5/21)

Carly Carpino
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Bioengineering
(6/20 - 5/21)
Maham Tanveer
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Bioengineering
(8/19 - 5/21)

Tim Hartnagel
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Biochemistry
(6/20 - 8/21)
Thomas Perone
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Chemistry
(5/21 - 12/21)

Grant Armstrong
Undergraduate / Pre-doctoral Research Assistant
Biological Sciences
(6/20 - 6/22)
Danielle Picarello
Undergraduate Research Assistant
IDEAS
(6/20 - 6/23)

Alain Rousseau
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Mechanical Engineering
(6/21 - 5/23)
Stephen Gee
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Biocomputational Engineering
(6/20 - 8/23)