Won H. Suh, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
Phone: 215-204-7928
Email: wonsuh@temple.edu
Webpage: Molecular, Nanostructure, and Stem Cell Engineering Lab
Google Scholar Citations: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WraeoP8AAAAJ

  1. Name and Academic Rank:

Won H. Suh, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, Full-time

  1. Degrees with Field, Institution and Date:

B.S. – Seoul National University, 1998

M.S. – Seoul National University, 2002

Ph.D. – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006

  1. Number of Years of Service on this Faculty:

Initial appointment: July 2012, Assistant Professor

  1. Other Related Experience:

2000-2002 Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Seoul National University

2002-2006 Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2007-2008 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, Santa Barbara

2008-2010 Otis Williams Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioengineering, University of California, Santa Barbara

2009-2011 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley

2011-2012 Assistant Project Scientist, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley

  1. Consulting, Patents, and Copyrights:

None.

  1. States in which Registered:

None.

  1. Selected Publications:

Suh, W. H.*; Tirrell, M*, “Surface engineering using peptide amphiphiles,” Comprehensive Biomaterials 2011, 4, 219-245.

Suh, W. H.*; Kang, J.; Suh, Y. -H.*; Tirrell, M.; Suslick, K. S.; Stucky, G. D.*, “Porous Carbon Produced in Air: Physicochemical Properties and Stem Cell Engineering,” Advanced Materials 2011, 23, 2332-2338.

Horst, A. M.; Neal, A. C.; Mielke, R. E.; Sislian, P. R.; Suh, W. H.; Madler, L.; Stucky, G. D.; Holden, P. A.*, “Pseudomonas aeruginosa disperses TiO2 nanoparticle agglomerates,” Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2010, 76, 7292-7298.

Suh, W. H.; Suh, Y. -H.*; Stucky, G. D.*, “Multifunctional nanosystems at the interface of physical and life sciences,” Nano Today 2009, 4, 27-36.

Suh, W. H.; Suslick, K. S.; Stucky, G. D.; Suh, Y. -H.*, “Nanotechnology, Nanotoxicology, and Neuroscience,” Progress in Neurobiology 2009, 87, 133-170. (PMID: 18926873)

Bang, J. H.; Suh, W. H., Suslick, K. S.*, “Quantum Dots from Chemical Aerosol Flow Synthesis: Preparation, Characterization, and Cellular Imaging,” Chemistry of Materials 2008, 20, 4033-4038.

Suh, W. H.; Jang, A. R.; Suh, Y. -H.*; Suslick, K. S.*, “Porous, Hollow, and Ball-in-ball Metal Oxide Microspheres: Preparation, Endocytosis, and Cytotoxicity,” Advanced Materials 2006, 18, 1832-1837.

Suh, W. H.; Suslick, K. S.; Suh, Y. -H.*, “Therapeutic Agents for Alzheimer’s Disease,” Current Medicinal Chemistry – Central Nervous System Agents 2005, 5, 259-270.

Suh, W. H.; Suslick, K. S.*, “Magnetic and Porous Nanospheres from Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005, 127, 12007-12010.

Suh, W. H.; Choi, M. R.; Lee, S. I.; Chung, Y. K.*, “Rh(I)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Intramolecular Pauson-Khand Reaction in Aqueous Media,” Synthesis 2003, 2169-2172.

  1. Scientific and Professional Societies of which a Member:

Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)

International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)

Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

Materials Research Society (MRS)

American Chemical Society (ACS)

  1. Honors and Awards:

Travel Award from Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative (PTEI), April 2011 (Translational Regenerative Med. Mtg., Wash. D.C.)

Otis Williams Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioengineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, 02/2008-01/2010.

Travel Award From the Graduate College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2006 (Spring MRS 2006).

Harry G. Drickamer Research Fellowship, School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Aug. 08, 2005.

ACS DIC (Division of Inorganic Chemistry) Student Travel Awards, Spring 2004 ACS National Meeting in Anaheim.

Teaching Award in the School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 20, 2003.

Listed on “An Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students” for teaching Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Chem234, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, and Fall 2003 (three times).