Sang-Cheol Bae

Professor Sang-Cheol Bae acquired his MD in 1984, and subsequently a PhD in 1993, from the Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. From 1996 to 1998, he worked as a rheumatology research fellow and instructor at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. In 1998, he obtained a MPH degree from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA. He is a Full Professor (1993~24) and then Chair Professor of Medicine (2024~) of the Hanyang University.
He is the former Director of the Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases (2005-2019); Director of Hanyang University Institute for Rheumatology Research (2019~); and Director of Hanyang Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (2021~), Seoul, Korea. He was the president of 15th International Congress on SLE (2023) and the president of Korean College of Rheumatology (2022~23).
His major research interests include clinical and genetic epidemiology, and precision medicine in SLE and RA. He has published ~ 770 articles on these topics in peer-reviewed journals.