Professor Seung Min Jeong received his B.S. in Molecular Biology and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Seoul National University. He subsequently conducted his postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School. Since 2015, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry at the Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine and currently serves as the Director of the Institute for Aging and Metabolic Diseases. His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of aging and age-related pathologies such as fibrosis.

Professor Jeonghan Kim received his  M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Molecular Cell Biology from the Department of Biotechnology at Korea University. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral training and served as a Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States. Since 2021, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry at the College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea. His primary research interests focus on mitochondria-mediated regulation of inflammatory responses and the underlying mechanisms governing fibrosis and cancer metastasis.