
الدكتور يونغزو بارك
عالم أول
أستاذ مشارك
الدكتور يونغزو بارك
عالم أول
أستاذ مشارك
المؤهلات العلمية
PhD in Molecular Neurobiology
BS in Life Science
الكيان
معهد قطر لبحوث الطب الحيوي
كلية العلوم الصحية والحيوية
السيرة الذاتية
Dr. Yongsoo Park is an Associate Professor at the College of Health and Life Sciences and a Senior Scientist at Qatar Biomedical Research Institute. He received PhD in investigating exocytosis and plasticity of vesicle fusion at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea.
After completing his PhD degree in 2009, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany, being trained by a mentor Prof. Reinhard Jahn, a world-renowned scientist by his pioneering research into fusion and neurotransmitter release. In 2015, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Izmir International Biomedicine and Genome Institute where he joined the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey.
In 2019 Dr. Park moved to the Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI) and is coaffiliated at the College of Health and Life Sciences aiming to model neurological disease with patient-specific hiPSC-derived neurons. His lab focuses on extracellular vesicle biomarkers for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer's disease. He also studies lipid dysregulation in neurological disease conditions with a focus on calcium signaling and vesicle fusion. By applying interdisciplinary approaches, his team investigates molecular mechanisms of neurological disorders and the development of therapeutics.
PhD in Molecular Neurobiology
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea
2002 - 2009
BS in Life Science
Handong Global University, South Korea
1996 - 2001
- Exosome and extracellular vesicle (EV) biomarkers for neurological disorders including autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
- Use of neuronal differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) as a disease model of ASD, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson’s disease.
- Lipid dysregulation in neurological disease condition with a focus on vesicle fusion.
- Molecular mechanisms of neuronal degeneration in neurological disorders and microRNA exocytosis in health and disease.
Senior Scientist
Qatar Biomedical Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2024 - Present
Associate Professor
College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2024 - Present
Scientist
Qatar Biomedical Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2019 - 2024
Assistant Professor
College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2019 - 2024
Assistant Professor
Molecular Biology and Genetics, Koç University, Turkey
2017 - 2019
Assistant Professor
Izmir International Biomedicine and Genome Institute, Turkey
2015 - 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
2009 - 2015
Ali Moussa, H. Y., Shin, K. C., & Park, Y. (2025). Ca2+/calmodulin and protein kinase C (PKC) reverse the vesicle fusion arrest by unmasking PIP2. Science Advances.
Shin, K. C., Ali Moussa, H. Y., & Park, Y. (2024). Cholesterol imbalance and neurotransmission defects in neurodegeneration. Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 56(8), 1685–1690.
Ali Moussa, H. Y., Shin, K. C., Ponraj, J., Park, S. H., Lee, O. S., Mansour, S., & Park, Y. (2024). PIP2 is an electrostatic catalyst for vesicle fusion by lowering the hydration energy: Arresting vesicle fusion by masking PIP2. ACS Nano, 18(20), 12737–12748.
Shin, K. C., Ali, G., Ali Moussa, H. Y., Gupta, V., de la Fuente, A., Kim, H. G., Stanton, L. W., & Park, Y. (2023). Deletion of TRPC6, an autism risk gene, induces hyperexcitability in cortical neurons derived from human pluripotent stem cells. Molecular Neurobiology, 60(12), 7297–7308.
Ali Moussa, H. Y., Shin, K. C., Ponraj, J., Kim, S. J., Ryu, J. K., Mansour, S., & Park, Y. (2023). Requirement of cholesterol for calcium-dependent vesicle fusion by strengthening synaptotagmin-1-induced membrane bending. Advanced Science, 10(15), e2206823.
Complete Publication Listing(s): NCBI
- Member, International Advisory Board of the International Symposium on Chromaffin Cell Biology (ISCCB) (2023).
- Best faculty/researcher poster award, second place, the 1st HBKU Research Day (7.Sep.2022).
- Member, EMBO Young Investigator Programme (YIP) as an EMBO Installation Grantee (2016-2020).
- Science Academy’s Young Scientist Awards Program (BAGEP), Bilim Akademisi, Turkey (27. 04. 2017).
- Research fellowship for post-doctoral researcher, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2010 – 2012).