Insup Noh is currently a professor of Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and founder of Convergence Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials at the General Graduate School in the Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech). He is also director/founder of Convergence Program of Healthcare & Biomedical Engineering at the Graduate School of Industry. Both convergence programs are jointly operated by the two national institutes of SeoulTech and Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences (KIRAMS). He earned his Ph.D. degree at University of Texas in Austin, USA, under Dr. Jeffrey A. Hubbell. He also worked in California Institute of Technology as a special graduate student and in the Division of Harvard-MIT Health Science and Technology as a postdoctoral researcher. He is currently a vice president of Korean Society for BioMaterials and an auditor of Korean Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society. He also serves as an ISO TC150 member, Korea. His major research interests focus on functional biomaterials for tissue engineering. He has been developing injectable hydrogels and scaffolds for bone, cartilage and blood vessels based on biodegradable polymers by focusing on their interactions with biological systems.