Senyon Teddy Choe
President/Director, JCB
Metro Region: San Diego
Member Since: 2018
Teddy received his Biophysics degree from University of California, Berkeley in 1987, and the postdoctoral training in the department of Physics at Cornell University. He determined atomic crystal structures of diphtheria toxin and of synthetic coiled-coil zipper peptides at UCLA. He was a founding faculty member of the structural biology laboratory at the renowned Salk Institute, San Diego, in 1993. During his faculty tenure at Salk Institute (1993-2015), his new research team focused to elucidate molecular mechanisms of how cells communicate. Drs. Francis Crick, Wylie Vale, Tony Hunter, Chuck Stevens, and Juan Carlos Ispizua Belmonte have been his major mentors and collaborating colleagues at Salk Institute.
His major honors include election in 1999 to the Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition for his frontier science in biophysics. In 2008, he founded joint Center for Biosciences in Korea to carry out protein engineering and developing new stem cell therapy, facilitating the drug discovery for pharmaceutical industry. His current research focuses on synthetic protein biologics against bone disorders and fibrosis. He is a sought-after speaker at public events including his recent TEDx lectures.