Prof. Kwak has been appointed as a professor at the Department of Pharmacology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Korea, since 2015. He is currently the Director of the Immune-network Pioneer Research Center, which is sponsored as one of the Pioneer Research Center Programs by the Korean Ministry of Science ICT and Future Planning. He was elected Doctor Honoris Causa in the Russian Academy of Science in 2012 and on editorial boards in World J Exp Med and Advances in Modern Oncology Research. He completed his doctorate in medical biochemistry with neutrophil activation and signal transduction pathways at the Pusan National University, Korea, in 1991. After he studied phospholipase D activation of neutrophils at Emory University as a post-doctorate, he joined the Department of Biochemistry at Dong-A University in 1997, where he directed his research to dendritic cell analysis. His primary research interests include dendritic cell regulation, the immunogenic response of cancer cells, the chemokine network between dendritic cells and damaged cells, and the 3D culture of immune cells.