Joomyung (Vicky) Jun
Principal Investigator I Assistant Professor in Chemistry
Education
B.S. Chemical Biology, UC Berkeley
Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Post-doc., MIT (KI, LSRF Postdoctoral Fellow)
Favorite Quote
"Late bloomers are often the best flowers"
–Ken Raymond
If you were a piece of lab equipment, what would you be?
A fluorescent microscope–because it merges science and art
About Vicky (she/her)
Born and raised in Seoul, Korea, Vicky received her B.Sc. degree in Chemical Biology from the UC Berkeley, performing undergraduate research with Ken Raymond. She then worked with Ron Zuckermann at the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Vicky completed her Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania as the first joint student of David Chenoweth and James Petersson. She was a Koch Institution for Integrative Cancer Research (KI) and Life Sciences Research Foundation (LSRF) postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Ron Raines at MIT. In 2024, she joined the department of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as a faculty member in chemical biology. Her lab focuses on developing chemical tools to enable and understand the intracellular delivery of protein therapeutics in living systems. Outside the lab, Vicky enjoys practicing latte art, picking up new sports, and getting creative through crafting.