Dr. Han

Biography

Dr. Han received his MD and PhD degrees from the Seoul National University (SNU) College of Medicine, Korea. He has started faculty appointment in SNU since 2004. Starting from 2015, he has become a Professor of SNU College of Medicine. He is an active member of AACR and ASCO. He is an associate editor of Journal of Breast Cancer and BMC Research Notes, and editorial board of Breast Cancer. He has been devoted to both breast cancer patient care and research. He has published more than 240 original articles in peer reviewed journals, including Journal of Clinical Oncology, Annals of Surgery, Annals of Oncology, Clinical Cancer Research, Cancer, and Breast Cancer Research. His clinical research interest is breast cancer in very young age women, development of nomograms for surgical decision, mammographic density, neoadjuvant hormonal therapy, and breast MRI, etc. He studied and practiced a variety of oncoplastic surgical skills to improve the cosmetic outcome and quality of life of breast cancer patients. Dr. Han also participated in basic and translational research projects. His current interest is to discover driver gene and mutations of breast cancer using Next Generation Sequencing technique. He is also interested in single cell sequencing and circulating tumor cell detection. In parallel, he is carrying out clinical trial and basic research to prove the efficacy of metformin and its derivatives as a breast cancer treatment. He has been collaborating with world-wide major institute, such as Stanford University, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, UCLA, and Kyoto University.

Research Interest

Breast Cancer