Associate Professor
● B.S., POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
● M.S., POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
● Ph.D., New York University
● Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
● Assistant Professor, Wayne State University
Young-Hoon Ahn received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from Pohang University of Science and Technology (Korea) in 1999 and 2001. He then completed his Ph.D. in Bioorganic Chemistry from New York University in 2007 with Professor Young-Tae Chang. His research involved the chemical synthesis of fluorescent molecule libraries and applications to bioimaging probes. He then continued his post-doctoral work in Pharmacology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with Professor Philip A. Cole. His post-doctoral research involved understanding redox signaling pathways with chemical probes. He began his tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Chemistry at Wayne State University in 2012 and promoted to Associate Professor in 2018.
Wayne State University
Department of Chemistry
5101 Cass Avenue, Chem 421
Detroit, MI 48202