Seung-Wuk Lee

Professor, Bioengineering Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Office Address: B108A Stanley Hall
Email: leesw@berkeley.edu
For more information, see: https://leelab.berkeley.edu/
Research areas:
Biomaterials & Nanotechnology
We are interested in bio-inspired nanomaterials and nanotechnology. We are developing new ways to fabricate high performance materials and devices through self-assembly processes by exploiting biological organisms such as viruses and cells. We are also designing synthetic viruses which can be exploited as regenerative tissue engineering materials and drug delivery vehicles.
Education
- 2003 Ph. D., The University of Texas at Austin, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- 1998 M. S.,Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Chemistry
- 1995 B. S. Korea University Seoul, Korea, Chemistry
Experience & Training
- 2015-present Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
- 2011-2015 Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
- 2006-2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
- 2006-present Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- 2004-2005 Postdoctoral Fellow, The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- 2009-present Associate Director, Center of Integrated Nanomechanical System, UC Berkeley
Honors & Awards
- 2016 AIMBE College of Fellows
- 2016 CJ Global Grant Award
- 2013 & 2015 Samsung GRO Award
- 2013 & 2015 R&D 100 Award
- 2014 One of 12 Highlights for 2014 President Obama’s Report to the US Congress for the NSF
- 2012 One of the 17 breakthrough of the 2012 Scientific Discovery (iO9 Committee)
- 2010 Berkeley Faculty Research Fund Award, University of California, Berkeley
- 2009 Presidential Chair Fellows, University of California, Berkeley
- 2008-2013 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- 2008 Hellman Foundation Faculty Award
- 2007 First place in MRS 2007 Spring Meeting Top 5 Hot Talk/Cool Papers among 3300 papers
- 2005 Annual Nanotech Briefs’ Nano50 award; Innovator Categories
2024
Chae, Inseok; Chung, Woo-Jae; Jin, Hyo-Eon; Yang, Robert J.; Kim, Han; Lim, Butaek; Lee, Hee Jung; Kim, Sun-Young; Lee, Seung-Wuk
Evolutionary Design of Self-Templated Supramolecular Fibrils Using M13 Bacteriophage for Tissue Engineering Journal Article
In: NANO LETTERS, vol. 24, no. 33, pp. 10388-10395, 2024, ISSN: 1530-6984.
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Chae, Inseok; Shivkumar, Arjun; Doyle, Fiona M.; Lee, Seung-Wuk
Virus-Based Separation of Rare Earth Elements Journal Article
In: NANO LETTERS, vol. 24, no. 32, pp. 9946-9952, 2024, ISSN: 1530-6984.
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Kim, Han; Lee, Seung-Wuk
Molecular Mechanisms and Enhancement of Piezoelectricity in the M13 Virus Journal Article
In: ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 2024, ISSN: 1616-301X.
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2023
Kim, Han; Okada, Kento; Chae, Inseok; Lim, Butaek; Ji, Seungwook; Kwon, Yoonji; Lee, Seung-Wuk
Virus-Based Pyroelectricity Journal Article
In: ADVANCED MATERIALS, vol. 35, no. 46, 2023, ISSN: 0935-9648.
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Lim, Butaek; Kim, Jinyeong; Desai, Malav S.; Wu, Weiyu; Chae, Inseok; Lee, Seung-Wuk
Elastic Fluorescent Protein-Based Down-Converting Optical Films for Flexible Display Journal Article
In: BIOMACROMOLECULES, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 118-131, 2023, ISSN: 1525-7797.
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doi = {10.1021/acs.biomac.2c00957},
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2022
Chae, Inseok; Han, Andy; Sundaram, Jagan; Lee, Seung-Wuk
Recombinant factor VIII protein aggregation and adsorption at the liquid-solid interface Journal Article
In: JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE, vol. 628, no. A, pp. 820-828, 2022, ISSN: 0021-9797.
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doi = {10.1016/j.jcis.2022.07.161},
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year = {2022},
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Shrestha, Kshitiz Raj; Lee, Do Hoon; Chung, Woojae; Lee, Seung-Wuk; Lee, Byung Yang; Yoo, So Young
Biomimetic virus-based soft niche for ischemic diseases Journal Article
In: BIOMATERIALS, vol. 288, 2022, ISSN: 0142-9612.
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doi = {10.1016/j.biomaterials.2022.121747},
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