Tae Il Son
Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Biography
Tae Il Son completed his PhD degree in Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in 1989. He is a Professor in the Department of Systems Biotechnology, Chung-Ang University. He was a Visiting Scholar at North Carolina State University, USA in 1998 and RIKEN, Japan in 2007. He has served as President of the Korean Society for Chitin and Chitosan. He is currently the Director of Biomaterial Field in the Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (KSIEC) in Republic of Korea. He has been involved in research for medical applications using natural polymer derivatives for over 30 years. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals.