Dr. Yong Chool Boo is currently a professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Korea, and he also works as a processor at the Cell and Matrix Institute, Kyungpook National University. He has a Ph.D. from Seoul National University and he has pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Emory University.