Biography
Dr. Juw Won Park is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Louisville and the Brown Cancer Center (BCC) Bioinformatics Core director. He also serves as the co-director of the Center for Integrative Environmental Health Science (CIEHS) Biostatistics and Informatics Facility Core (BIFC), and a faculty member of the Kentucky IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (KY INBRE) Bioinformatics Core at the University of Louisville. He obtained his Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from the University of Iowa. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics at UCLA. He has been a recipient of multiple NIH grants since 2017.
Research Interests
His research focuses on the intersection of bioinformatics and systems biology, with a particular emphasis on understanding the complex regulatory mechanisms governing alternative mRNA splicing in eukaryotic cells. He leverages high-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) and related genomic technologies to analyze massive datasets and develop innovative computational methods for elucidating the biological significance of alternative splicing.
His expertise lies in the analysis and interpretation of high-throughput sequencing data, including RNA-seq, single-cell RNA-seq, CLIP-seq, 16S sequencing, PacBio HiFi sequencing, and Nanopore sequencing. Over the past decade, He has published numerous bioinformatics algorithms for tasks such as circular RNA detection, alternative splicing analysis, ERSP 1/2 regulated splicing, RNA-binding protein binding site prediction, and genomic variant identification. He has applied these computational approaches to a diverse range of biological systems, including human arsenic-induced cancer, mouse exosomes, human Zika virus, chicken and mouse cochlea, rat retina, and human regulatory T-cells.
Research Labs
Degrees and Certifications
University of Iowa
University of Iowa
Korea University