Byung-Ha Oh
استاد · Computational protein design
KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technologyمعرفی
Professor Byung-Ha Oh is a faculty member at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), leading the Therapeutic Protein Design & Structural Biology Lab. His research focuses on creating novel therapeutic proteins through computational approaches to address unmet biomedical needs in infectious diseases, cancer, and neurological disorders.
Educational background includes:
- Ph.D. in Biophysics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research interests integrate:
- Physics-based computational methods (ROSETTA software suite)
- Learning-based approaches (deep learning/machine learning)
- 3D structure determination for experimental validation
- Design of neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 variants
- Therapeutic protein engineering for cancer immunotherapy
- Applications in neuropathological disease treatment
His work has produced human neutralizing antibodies binding SARS-CoV-2 spike protein RBD across all circulating variants with picomolar-to-femtomolar affinity.
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The Therapeutic Protein Design & Structural Biology Lab serves as his primary research unit, combining computational design pipelines with structural biology techniques to develop next-generation protein therapeutics.
