With a medical degree in Korea, upon his PhD in 1991 at Kyunpook University, Daegu, Kwan-Kyu Park was nominated a permanent professorship at Faculty of Medicine where he initiated a laboratory of experimental pathology. Over the last 20 years, he has focused his scientific interests on the topics related to life-threatening disorders including hepatic and gastrointestinal diseases. With his expertise in biomedical morphology, he trained tens of postgraduate students, and published numerous SCI journal papers, and edited/reviewed for many academic journals, worked as a guest professor in many foreign universities and institutes, coordinated/participated in several national projects, served as an evaluation expert for organizations such as Korean society of pathology, and received many academic honors. Innovative, translational and longstanding research has ever been a pursuit in his academic career.