Jun Huh, Ph.D.

Jun Huh earned his B.S. and M.S. in Microbiology from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. After completing one and a half years of military duty, he came to the United States to enter the graduate program at the California Institute of Technology. He carried out his doctoral training in the laboratory of Bruce Hay where he studied Drosophila apoptosis and obtained his Ph.D. in Biology. Jun was trained as a postdoctoral fellow under the mentorship of Dan R. Littman at the NYU School of Medicine, where he studied T cell immunology with a particular focus on chemical and genetic modulation of pathogenic Th17 cells. Jun was selected as a recipient of the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006), the NIH Pathway to Independence (PI) Award (2011), and the Smith Family Awards Program for Excellence in Biomedical Research (2013). He also has been named a 2015 Searle Scholar and 2016 Pew Scholar.