About Dr. Kong

Dr. Seong Deok Kong received his B.S. in Chemistry from Kyung Hee University, South Korea in 2000. His M.S. in Inorganic Chemistry from Yonsei University, South Korea in 2002 and his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2010. His dissertation is titled “Magnetically Vectored Nanocapsules for Tumor Penetration and Remotely Switchable Drug Release”.
In the fall of 2015, Dr. Kong joined the College of Engineering at California Baptist University (CBU) as an Associate Professor. His specialty is the Nano-Bio Technology for the Nanomedicine.
Before joining CBU, Dr. Kong worked at Emory University as a Scientist (Research Professor). His research focused on the development of multiblock conjugated polymer nanoparticles for biomedical application. Prior to his work at Emory University, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His research work was on the development of new classes of nanomaterials for nanomedicine and electromagnetic imaging. During his graduate research at Yonsei University and UCSD, he designed and developed new acid-responsive linkers that are cleaved at the cancer environment, and fabricated new organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials for the development of remote controlled drug delivery systems and bio-imaging. 
In his research at CBU, he has been working on developing the new class of magnetically vectored nano-carriers and the new microneedle patch including magnetic nanoparticles for efficient transdermal drug release using 3-d prints. His research area is Nanomedicine using nano-biotechnology.