Hello people !

I am an assistant professor, with background in structural biology, biochemistry, genetic and protein engineering, bioinformatics, computational biology, drug-design, epigenetic therapy of cancers. I have an extensive experience in interdisciplinary scientific collaborations.

My laboratory studies the functions, structures, and mechanisms of transcription factors for developing new drugs against cancers, neurodegenerative diseases, and stroke. Work in my research group is multi-disciplinary and it incorporates many processes of the early-stage drug development. My research is at the interface between biochemistry, pharmacology, neuroscience, structural biology, and computational biology. Methods development concerns news tools in bioinformatics and molecular modeling of proteins for our research needs. Check out my lab website: http://webbuild.knu.ac.kr/~diluccio/

Prior joining the Kyungpook National University in Korea, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) consecutively in David K. Wilson’s lab (Molecular and Cellular biology dept.) and in Patrice Koehl’s lab (Genome center). I tremendously enjoyed working at UC Davis and living in California.

When I’m not working, I enjoy flying airplanes at the local airport and, most of all, riding my bicycles over and over. Also, I almost made it into space (for real)….In 2008, I have been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to be part of the astronaut selection program for the ’09 class of astronauts. Unfortunately I didn’t make it (tough selection). My trip to space is just postponed…