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Professor Jun received her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, where she conducted undergraduate research with Ken Raymond. She worked with Ron Zuckermann at the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, being the first joint student under David Chenoweth and James Petersson. As a Shurl Kay Curci Postdoctoral Fellow with Ron Raines at MIT, she focused her research on chemical biology. In 2024, she joined the faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, specializing in Chemical Biology. Her research interests include the development of small molecule chemical tools, protein chemistry, drug delivery systems, and biomedical nanotechnology. She aims to create innovative chemical strategies for drug delivery and training within her lab includes topics in synthetic organic chemistry and pharmacology. Her research program is expected to influence the field of medicine, particularly in the context of delivering next-generation therapies to combat currently undruggable diseases.
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