Life Summary
Chun Jong-yoon is the CEO of Seegene.

He is seeking new drivers to continue Seegene's growth following the transition of COVID-19 to an endemic phase.

Born on July 6, 1957, in Yongseong-myeon, Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk, he was the third child among three sons and two daughters.

He graduated from Konkuk University with a degree in agriculture and received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Tennessee.

He completed his postdoctoral research at Harvard University and UC Berkeley and worked as a full-time researcher at the Kumho Life Sciences Research Institute.

He served as a professor in the Department of Life Sciences at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology and in the Department of Biological Sciences at Ewha Womans University.

In 2000, while a professor at Ewha Womans University, he founded Seegene, encouraged by his uncle Chun Kyung-joon, former Vice President of Technology at Samsung Electronics and chairman of Seegene.

After resigning from his professorship in 2001, he devoted himself to managing Seegene.

By developing timely COVID-19 diagnostic products, he grew the company into a KRW 1 trillion (US$ 720 million) enterprise.