- Posttranslational modification and epigenetic regulation in cardiac hypertrophy/heart failure and skeletal muscular diseases
- Non-coding RNAs in cardiovascular remodeling
- Novel histone lysine demethylases and their epigenetic regulation mechanisms in muscular diseases

1997~2000 Full-time Instructor, Chonnam National University
1999 Visiting Scholar, Kyoto University Hospital
2000~2004 Assistant Professor, Chonnam National University
2001~2003 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Cardiovascular Health System
2004~2010 Associate Professor, Chonnam National University
2010~present Professor, Chonnam National University
2011 Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Cardiovascular Health System
2018~ Member, National Academy of Medicine of Korea
2008~ Chair, Member, Korean Choral Composers’ Association

2006 Young Investigator’s Award, Wunsch Medical Prize
2015 Korean Society of Pharmacology, Academic Award
2016 Pfizer Medical Award of 2016 – Basic Medicine