Professor Kyung-Jin Min

Kyung-Jin Min, Ph.D. is the Dean of International Affairs and Professor at the Department of Natural Medical Sciences, Inha University, Yonghyundong, Incheon in Korea. He was previously Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska.

Kyung-Jin is Editorial Board Member for Psyche, PLoS One, and for Research & Reviews in Biosciences. He is also Associate Editor for Entomological Research (SCI-E) and Review Editor for Frontiers in Genetics of Aging Research. 

His research focuses on testing compounds and extracts that may be able to positively impact the underlying causes of aging-related disease using Drosophila, the fruit fly. Recently, his experiments were able to confirm these effects for curcumin, D-chiro-inositol, and mistletoe extracts. Read Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men?

Another recent result of his research showed that the life expectancy of Korean eunuchs is at least 14 years longer than normal men, showing the clear cost to human longevity by reproduction.

Read Curcumin Extends Lifespan, Improves Healthspan, and Modulates the Expression of Age-Associated Aging Genes in Drosophila melanogaster, The role of commensal microbes in the lifespan of Drosophila melanogaster, and Genetic and metabolomic architecture of variation in diet restriction-mediated lifespan extension in Drosophila.

He is Reviewer for Current Biology, PNAS, Cell Reports, Aging Cell, Aging-US, Oncotarget, Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, Journal of Gerontology, Biogerontology, Experimental Gerontology, Australian Journal on Ageing, Integrative and Comparative Biology, Journal of European Entomology, Animal Cells and Systems, The Journal of Microbiology, Journal of Experimental Zoology, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Molecules and Cells, BMC genomics, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports.

Since 2020, he has been on the Review Board for the Korean Research Foundation and a Committee Member at the UNESCO anti-aging Silk Roads program. He also serves as the Director of the Korean Society for Gerontology and is Fellow of the Global Healthspan Policy Institute. 

Read Transplantation of ACE2-mesenchymal stem cells improves the outcome of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia and Sirtuin signaling in cellular senescence and aging.

In 2008, Kyung-Jin became Affiliated Researcher at the Aging Research Center, KRIBB where he is working on the identification of senile disease control factors and the development of control technology for the identification of new aging genes and understanding of its mechanisms. He is also developing the original technology related to aging diagnosis and control.

Previously, between 2017 and 2019, Kyung-Jin was the Director of the Convergent Research Center for Metabolism and Immunoregulation (CRCMI). The Center aims to carry out convergent research on metabolism and immunology, to further facilitate basic science and clinical application, and eventually contribute to healthy societies.

Kyung-Jin was awarded the Most Cited Paper Award in 2021 by the Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

His papers include Drosophila germ-line modulation of insulin signaling and lifespan, Restriction of amino acids extends lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila diet restriction in practice: Do flies consume fewer nutrients?, Counting Calories in Drosophila Diet Restriction, Drosophila lifespan control by dietary restriction independent of insulin-like signaling, Increased juvenile hormone levels after long-duration flight in the grasshopper, Melanoplus sanguinipes, and Use of stable isotopes to examine how dietary restriction extends Drosophila lifespan.

Kyung-Jin earned his Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Biology at Korea University in 1995. He was awarded the Scholarship for Excellence by Korea University in 1993 and 1994. He earned his Master’s Degree of Science in Biology at Korea University in 1997. 

In 1999 and 2000, he was awarded Dorothea Bennet Memorial Graduate Fellowships and in 2001 and 2002, Zoology Scholarships from the Endowment for Excellence both by the University of Texas where he earned his Ph.D. in Zoology in 2003 with the dissertation Neuroendocrine Regulation of Migration and Reproduction in the Grasshopper Melanoplus Sanguinipes Fabricius.

He was Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University from 2004 to 2007.

Read Korean mistletoe (Viscum album var. coloratum) extends the lifespan via FOXO activation induced by dSir2 in Drosophila melanogaster. Read Betulinic Acid Increases the Lifespan of Drosophila melanogaster via Sir2 and FoxO Activation and Piperine improves the health span of Drosophila melanogaster with age- and sex-specific effect.

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