Yong Sang Song, MD

Chair of executive committee, International Society of Precision Cancer Medicine;
Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University

Prof. Yong Sang Song is currently the Professor at Seoul National University, College of Medicine. He received his medical doctor’s degree and Ph.D at the Seoul National University, Korea in 1983 and 1994 respectively. He worked at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, as research fellow in Department of Molecular Biology from 1997 to 1999. He served as the Associate Professor at Seoul National University from 2001 to 2005. He served as the Professor and the Associate Dean of College of Medicine Seoul National University Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology in 2006. He was elected as the Chairperson of Korean Society of Urogynecology in 2006. He was selected as director of Cancer Research Institute at Seoul National University in 2009. In the same year, he also organized International Conference of NAPA and was selected as the Chairperson of Asian Society of Gynecologic Oncology (ASGO) Scientific Committee. He was selected as the President of Korean Society of Cancer Prevention in 2012. He served as the President of International Society of Precision Cancer Medicine (ISPCM) in 2018.

His major research interests are molecular mechanisms of tumors, especially the role of tumor microenvironment in cancer cell metabolism, chemoresistance and precision medicine in gynecologic cancer. He is particularly interested in the impact of various cellular components on tumor microenvironment in ovarian cancer progression. He has published more than 250 papers in the science citation index (SCI) journals such as BMC cancer, Molecular Carcinogenesis, Cancer Letters and Oncotarget. He has received numerous awards including the prizes of Scientific Paper (Korean Scientific Association), Grand prize (Korean Society of Colposcopy and Gynecologic Oncology), Academic Award (International Conference on Ovarian Cancer), President Award on Prevention (Korean Government), Boryung Cancer Academic Award on Prevention (Korea) and Award of the 16th health/medical technology development (minister of health and welfare). He is also the editor-in-chief, senior editor and the member of editorial board of several scientific journals, such as International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Cancer Prevention, Cancer Letters, Molecular Carcinogenesis, Frontiers in Oncology and Scientific Reports.

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Terms of Appointment: July 2020 - July 2022