Myung-Ju Ahn

Myung-Ju Ahn is Professor of Hemato-Oncology at the Department of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul. She is a member of numerous research associations and societies, including the ISLAC, AACR, and ASCO and is currently Chief of the Executive Committee and Chairperson of Lung Cancer Disease Committee of the KCSG. She is the current president of the KSMO and was chairperson of the multidisciplinary Immuno-oncology Study Group (2017–2018). She is a board member for the KCA, KSMO and KALC, and is on the editorial board of Journal of Thoracic Oncology. Prof Ahn received her medical and doctoral degrees from Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul and completed her residency training at Hanyang University Hospital. She has held numerous research fellowships, including a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and has authored over 250 cancer research publications. Her research interests include the development of predictive and prognostic markers for personalised lung cancer therapy. She has recently focused on early clinical trials for the development of drug discovery and reposition of targeted drugs and the development of a NSCLC genome atlas. Her accolades for her dedication to cancer research include Best Researcher Award, KMWA (2003); Best Researcher Award, KACO (2015); Boryoung Scientific Award, Korean Cancer Research Foundation (2018), and Highly Cited Researcher, Clavirate analytics (2019).