Taesung Park received his M.S. degree in Statistics from Seoul National University, Korea in 1986, and received his Ph.D. degree in Biostatistics from the School of Public Health in the University of Michigan in 1990. From August 1991 to August 1992, he worked as a visiting research scientist at the National Institutes of Health, USA. From September 2002 to August 2003, he was a Visiting Professor in Department of Biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. From September 2009 to August 2010, he was a Visiting Professor in Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington, USA. He served as the Chair of the Bioinformatics Program, Seoul National University (SNU) from April 2005 to March 2008 and the Chair of Department of Statistics of SNU from September 2007 and August 2009. He is currently the Professor and Director for the National Creative Research Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics at the Department of Statistics, SNU, Korea. His research areas include DNA microarray data analysis, gene-gene interaction analysis, and statistical genetics.
Selected Publications
Paik S, Shak S, Tang G, Kim C, Baker J, Cronin M, Baehner FL, Walker MG, Watson D, Park T, Hiller W, Fisher ER, Wickerham DL, Bryant J, Wolmark N. (2004). A Multigene Assay to Predict Recurrence of Tamoxifen-Treated, Node-Negative Breast Cancer. N Engl J Med. Dec 10;
Wang,LH,Kim, SH, Lee, JH, Choi, YL, Kim, YC, Park, T, Hong, YC, Wu, CF, Shin, YK (2007). Inactivation of SMAD4 Tumor Suppressor Gene During Gastric Carcinoma Progression. Clin Cancer Res 2007;13(1) January 1, 2007, 102-110 Microarray
Jung Hyun Lee, JH, Kim, S H, Wang, L-H, Choi, Y-L, Kim, Y C, Kim, J H, Park, T, Hong,Y-C, Shin, Y. K.. (2007) Clinical significance of CD99 downregulation in gastric adenocarcinoma, Clin Cancer Res, May 1;13(9): 2584-91
Cho, Yoon Shin, et al. A large scale genome-wide association study of Asian populations uncovers genetic factors influencing eight quantitative traits, Nature Genetics , 2009 41(5): 527-34.
Namkung, J., Kim., K., Yi, S., Chung, W., Kwon, M.-S., and Park, T. New Evaluation Measures for Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction Classifiers in Gene-Gene Interaction Analysis. Bioinformatics, 2009 25(3):338-345
Kim, Y., Bekiranov, S., Lee, J. K., and Park, T. Double Error Shrinkage Method for Identifying Protein Binding Sites Observed by Tiling Arrays with Limited Replication. Bioinformatics, 2009 1;25(19):2486-91.
Li MD, Yoon D, Lee JY, Han BG, Niu T, Payne TJ, Ma JZ, Park T. Associations of variants in CHRNA5/A3/B4 gene cluster with smoking behaviors in a Korean population. PLoS One. 2010 Aug 16;5(8):e12183.
Teslovich, T. M. et al., Biological, Clinical, and Population Relevance of 95 Loci Mapped for Serum Lipid Concentrations, Nature, 2010 Aug 5;466(7307):707-13.
Young Jin Kim, et al. Nature Genetics, 2011 Sep 11. doi: 10.1038/ng.939.