Openings
We have a position available for a graduate student. If you are interested in it, contact Prof. Kwon and apply to the Chemical Engineering Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia. Contact Prof. Kwon.

February 2013:
Sung In's manuscript on Non-natural amino acids for protein engineering and new protein chemistries was accepted in Macromolecular Chemistry & Physics.

February 2013:
Shun received a SEAS travel grant to attend 2013 ACS National Meeting.

February 2013:
Ed and Jacob's manuscript on Halogenation Generates Effective Modulators of Amyloid-Beta Aggregation and Neurotoxicity was accepted in PLoS One.

January 2013:
Jacob and Ed's manuscript on Different Fates of Alzheimer’s Disease Amyloid-beta Fibrils Destabilized by Biocompatible Small Molecules was published in Biomacromolecules.

December 2012:
Jacob and Shun passed their Master Degree defense.

August 2012:
Simpson received a Trane graduate research fellowship.

May 2012:
Edward received a SEAS travel grant to attend 2012 AIChE Annual Meeting.

May 2012:
Simpson's manuscript on monitoring misfolding and aggregation of proteins in mammalian cells was accepted to the Biotechnology Journal.

May 2012:
Simpson and Jacob's manuscript on monitoring aggregation of proteins in vitro and in living cells was accepted to the KJChE Journal.

April 2012:
Professor Kwon received the Front-Line Scholarship from the TEDMED.

March 2012:
Yong Wu, the undergraduate student of Kwon Group, recieved the graduate progrm admission from California Institute of Technology. Congratulations.

February 2012:
Abhinav Mohan, the undergraduate student of Kwon Group, recieved the Harrison Undergraduate Research Award. Congratulations.

November 2011:
Sung In Lim, a graduate student of Chemical Engineering at UVa (MS at Postech, South Korea), joined the Kwon group.

November 2011:
Prof. Kwon received the James Lee Young Investigator Award from KIChE.

September 2011:
Shun and Jacob passed the research exam. Jacob received a Harmon Award recognizing a graduate student who showed an outstanding performance in the research exam.

September 2011:
Shun's manuscript on nonnatural amino acid incorporation was accepted to the Biotechnology Journal.

September 2011:
Edward's another manuscript on Alzehimer's disease research was accepted to the PLoS One journal.

September 2011:
Our paper titled as 'A safe, blood-brain barrier permeable triphenylmethane dye inhibits amyloid-beta neurotoxicity by generating non-toxic aggregates' was accepted to the ACS Chemical Neuroscience.

August 2011:
Our paper titled as 'Artificial extracellular matrix proteins containing phenylalanine analogues biosynthesized in bacteria using T7 expression system and the PEGylation' was accepted to the Biomacromolecues.

June 2011:
Simpson received a travel grant and UVEF graduate fellowship.

May 2011:
Prof. Kwon received a KSEA Young Investigator Grant.

April 2011:
Jacob A. Irwin, the rising 2nd year, received a 2011 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship.

April 2011:
Edward Wong went to the final round of UVERS 2011 competition and received 'Honorable mention'.

January 2011:
Our paper titled as 'An Evolved Adeno-Associated Viral Variant Enhances Gene Delivery and Gene Targeting in Neural Stem Cells. .' was published in Molecular Therapy.

December 2010:
Our paper titled as 'Dissolution of Zein Using Protic Ionic Liquids, N-(2-hydroxyethyl) Ammonium Formate and N-(2-hydroxyethyl)Ammonium Acetate.' was published in I&EC.

November 2010:
Jacob Irwin, a graduate student of Chemical Engineering at UVa (BS at Univ. Arkansas), joined the Kwon group.

September 2010:
Virginia international Genetically Engineered Machine (VGEM) undergraduate team received a bronze medal in the iGEM competition at Boston. Prof. Kwon was a faculty advisor.