Chief, Molecular Microbiology Section, LCIM
Education:
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
B.S., M.S., Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Biography
Dr. Kwon-Chung received her B.S. and M.S. in biology from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea, prior to receiving a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue her doctoral work in the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. After receiving her Ph.D. in 1965, she joined the Medical Mycology Section of the NIAID Laboratory of Microbiology in 1966 as a visiting fellow. She became a senior investigator in the NIAID Laboratory of Clinical Investigation in 1973 and has been the chief of the Molecular Microbiology Section, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, since 1995. She received Honorary Doctoral Degree in Science from University of Wisconsin in 2009 and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Microbiology in 2017.