Hee-Sup Shin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Hee-Sup Shin
Occupation	Neuroscientist
Date Of Birth	Jul 29, 1950(1950-07-29)
Age	74
Birthplace	Uiwang
Country	South Korea
Birth City	Gyeonggi Province
Horoscope	Leo

Hee-Sup Shin Biography

Hee-Sup Shin is one of the most popular and richest Neuroscientist who was born on July 29, 1950 in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.

Shin received his M.D. in immunology from the College of Medicine of Seoul National University in 1974. In 1983, he obtained a Ph.D. in genetics and cell biology from Cornell University. During his Ph.D. studies, he worked for several years as a postdoc in immunology at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research.

Upon graduating from Cornell, Shin worked as a research associate in genetics at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research until 1985. He then moved to Massachusetts where he held a dual position as an associate professor in the Department of Biology at MIT and as an associate member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. In 1991, he returned to Korea to work as an associate professor and later professor in the Department of Life Science in POSTECH where he stayed for a decade. During this time, he also was director of the Biotechnology Research Center in POSTECH and director of the National CRI Center for Calcium and Learning. Leaving POSTECH in 2001, he went to the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) to be a principal research scientist, a position he held for a decade. In 2005, he became the director of KIST’s Center for Neural Science and then director-general of their Brain Science Institute. In 2012, he moved to Daejeon to become founding director of the IBS Center for Cognition and Sociality located at KAIST. The center expanded when Changjoon Justin Lee became a co-director of the center in 2018. Shin leads the Social Neuroscience Group while Lee leads the Cognitive Glioscience Group.

Hee-Sup Shin Net Worth

Hee-Sup Shin is one of the richest Neuroscientist from South Korea. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hee-Sup Shin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Hee-sup Shin (born 1950) is a South Korean neuroscientist whose work focuses on brain research of genetically engineered mice via gene knockout in order to better understand the human brain. His research resulted in him being named a National Scientist by the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology. He is co- director of the Center for Cognition and Sociality leading the Social Neuroscience Group in the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) located at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).

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Facts & Trivia

Ranked on the list of most popular Neuroscientist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Korea. Hee-Sup Shin celebrates birthday on July 29 of every year.