Dongryeol Ryu (DR) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Science and Engineering at GIST (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology), Korea, where he has been leading the Molecular and Integrative Biology Laboratory (MIB Lab) since 2023. He received his Ph.D. in molecular cell biology from SKKU-SOM in 2010, followed by postdoctoral training with Prof. Johan Auwerx at the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. He was also selected for HCR 2022 (Crossfield).