Ssang-Goo Cho received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in the Department of Genetic Engineering from Korea University, the Republic of Korea. He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Ruttenberg Cancer Centre, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA, and worked at Korea University as a research professor and at Institute Pasteur as a visiting scientist. Now, he has been serving as a professor at the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biotechnology, Konkuk University, and also as a director of the Molecular and Cellular Reprogramming Center (MCRC). His areas of expertise include signaling pathways in stem, cancer, and cancer stem cells, the molecular mechanisms of cellular reprogramming, apoptosis or autophagy, pancreatic beta-cell differentiation, etc. He has published more than 200 papers in scientific journals.