Background
Suh, Hwal was born on May 29, 1953 in Seoul. Son of Young-mo and Yoon-ok (Cheong) Suh.
Suh, Hwal was born on May 29, 1953 in Seoul. Son of Young-mo and Yoon-ok (Cheong) Suh.
Doctor of Dental Surgery, Yonsei University, Seoul, 1978. MSD, Yonsei University, Seoul, 1984. Doctor of Philosophy, Osaka (Japan) University, 1992.
Attending researcher Columbia Institute Materials Science and Technology, New York City, 1985-1987. Special researcher Seoul National University, 1992-1995. Associate professor Yonsei University, Seoul, since 1995, chair research center for tissue regeneration, since 2000.
Vice chair Yonsei Medical Technology and Quality Evaluation Center, Seoul, 1997-1999, chair, since 1999. Executive director Korean Health and Medical Technology Planning and Evaluation Board, 1995-1996. Team leader National Project Health & Medicine, Tissue Engineering Team, since 1999.
Member international committee International Conference on Cellular Engineering, since 1999.
Captain Korean Army, 1978-1981. Member International Standard Organization (chair technical committee 150 Korean section since 1997), Korean Institute of Science and Technology (affiliated principal researcher since 1998), Korean Society for Biomaterials (executive director since 1996, chair committee science affair since 1999).
Married Kyunghee Lee, May 6, 1978. Children: Hyun, Lin.