Integrated collaboration is highly valued at Noul. Our entire team strive to apply our expertise in developing novel solutions to solve challenging problems.
David Lim is one of the co-founders of Noul and oversees all management and business as the CEO. He is leading the company with a mission to grow Noul into a global leader in the bio-healthcare industry that also creates impact and contributes to society. Before founding Noul, he worked as a venture capitalist in the bio-healthcare industry for about 10 years and served as the director of product development and business at MGB (Samsung Medison Endoscopy department). As a serial entrepreneur, noul is the 3rd. company to startup. David graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in electrical and computer engineering.
Attorney Peter Kim is one of the founding members of Noul. His role involves overseeing the company’s legal and regulatory issues, patents, and compliance. He joined Noul to pursue a meaningful career where his work can benefit a large community of people. Before starting Noul, Peter was a researcher at LG Electronics, then an attorney at KT corp., one of the largest telecommunications companies in Korea. Peter graduated from Seoul National University with a masters in electrical and computer engineering, then graduated from Jeju University law school.
Justin Ahn as the CSO (Chief Sustainability Officer) oversees Noul’s cultural, technical, and environmental sustainability. Justin joined Noul to grow it into a sustainable company that meets global standards. He is an expert in the topic of sustainability and was the first acting CSO in Korea. Before joining Noul, Justin worked at Posco Research Institute, British Standards Institution, and Slowalk.
Young, one of the co-founders of Noul, dedicates to research and consult Artificial Intelligence technology of miLab. Young has built his expertise in computer vision for the last 15 years, and he joined Noul in hopes to utilize AI technology in a more meaningful way. Before founding Noul, Young served his time at Hyundai Heavy Industries and Samsung. Young graduated from Seoul National University with a Ph.D. in Computer Vision.
Simon heads the Sales&Marketing division at Noul. Simon has finished his masters degree in international relationship in Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. He has developed his career in the field of medical device sales and marketing for over 16 years including the experiences in Empecs Medical, Mico Bio-Med. He will focus on spearheading the global outreach of Noul’s innovative technologies and solutions.
Davis oversees the production department at Noul. With more than 30 years of experience in Korea’s top companies, Davis is an expert in the areas of domestic and global production and manufacturing. Davis joined Noul to apply the world's leading manufacturing technology to biotechnology and diagnostics device industries. Before joining Noul, Davis directed manufacturing and production at Samsung Electronics and Optis. Davis graduated from Hongik University with a degree in mechanical engineering.
Kelly graduated from Liberty University in the U.S., with a degree in Business Administration. She has experiences in a global accounting firm and a security company as a finance team leader for 15 years. Kelly is responsible for financial and operational management at Noul.
Worked in INGO for years, dreaming of becoming a person who can help to make a better world. After finding out that noul is trying to solve social problems in it's business, she joyfully joined noul. Lena is currently in charge of the leader of the General Mgt. Circle.
Eugene leads the platform lab at Noul. Eugene has over 17 years of experience working in the software and firmware areas of the automotive and gas detection industry. Prior to joining Noul in 2018 as a firmware engineer, Eugene worked for Honeywell, Hyundai Powertech, and Seetron. Eugene holds a master’s degree in agricultural machinery engineering from the Seoul National University.
Leo is dedicated himself to create a stable hardware of miLab. He has built various of experiences in hardware, firmware, FPGA and MFC, after graduating Seoul National University of Science and Technology
Dennis joined noul in order to develop SW/AI/Data department which is an important part of the organization to achieve it's mission. Dennis loves to coordinate and develop the organization so that people can enjoy working together with high performance. Before joining, Dennis worked for Naver and Protopie.
As a software development engineer with more than 20 years of experience, John was attracted to noul's mission and philosophy which lead him to join the team. John is contributing to Noul's software development by utilizing his experience in various fields such as advertising, search, cloud, big data, and design tools. John graduated from KAIST computer science and technology and software expert course.
Like the saying, "If you know, you can see, and if you see, you will love," Grace feels her job more meaningful as she gets to know the disease and the environment in which the disease occurs. Grace joined because she was fascinated by the valuable work that noul thought of. She majored in genetic engineering and previously worked at the University of Washington, the University of Chicago.
Dr. Douglas Lungu's most recent position is as Founder and Hospital Director of Wezi Medical Centre, a specialist and research hospital in the northern region of Malawi.
Douglas' main field of expertise is in General Surgery and Public Health. He has extensive experience in the health sector of Malawi at all levels. He has served in the Malawi government Ministry of Health as Director of Clinical Services. His experience spans healthcare provision throughout the Government, faith based and Private sector, as well as being responsible for policy decisions and resource allocation at national level.
Main contribution in research is having been coordinated the universal access for HIV treatment and prevention in Malawi. Dr. Lungu's interest in malaria research and treatment led him to serve on the Access & Product Management Advisory Committee (APMAC) of the Medicine for Malaria Venture.
Dr. Lungu graduated from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, University College London and graduated as a General Surgeon from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He is also a founding fellow of the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa, FCS(COSECSA) and a fellow of the College of Surgeons of South Africa FCS(SA).
Severance Hospital of the Yonsei University, Department of Laboratory Medicine
JaeWoo Song, M.D.
Severance Hospital of the Yonsei University, Department of Laboratory Medicine
Dr. Song received his B.S. and M.D. degrees from Yonsei University, and he currently serves as a hematologist at the Severance Hospital in Seoul. His expertise is in diagnostic hematology, where his research focuses on statistical integration and analysis of hematology data, pathology of platelet function and related diseases, and development and application of next-generation cellular analysis technologies.
Asan Medical Center, Department of Clinical Pathology
Heounjeong Go, M.D., Ph.D.
Asan Medical Center, Department of Clinical Pathology
Dr. Go attended Seoul National University Medical School for both her bachelor's and doctorate degrees. Currently, she is a clinical pathologist at Asan Medical Center. Her expertise involves allograft pathology, digital pathology, and computer-assisted diagnosis, and she actively publishes her research in related conferences. Dr. Go empathizes deeply with Noul's mission to overcome the current diagnostic limitations with technological innovation to provide the best care for each patient. Dr. Go and Noul are collaborating to innovate diagnostic technology fitting for the future of medicine.
Prof. Ki Tae Nam is a professor in the department of materials science and engineering at the Seoul National University (SNU). He was a postdoc at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab after he got a PhD degree at MIT and B.S./M.S. at SNU. He is pioneering new research at the interface of biological systems and nanomaterials as an effort to make enzyme mimetic materials. Recently, his group demonstrated that peptides can program the atomic morphology of nanomaterials for biosensors and electrochemical devices.
Dr. Hans-Peter Beck is a Professor emeritus for Molecular Parasitology at the University of Basel and worked for 25 years at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) in Basel. He currently joined the team of the Innovation office of the University of Basel as scientific advisor. Dr. Beck’s expertise is in the molecular understanding of tropical diseases with focus on malaria. His main contribution to the field was the establishment of molecular genotyping methods in clinical and control trials for antimalarial drugs, as well as the understanding of protein-protein interactions within the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
Dr. Beck obtained his PhD from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and before he joined the Swiss TPH, he held several scientific positions at the University of Edinburgh and Glasgow, UK; at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI), Melbourne, Australia; at the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research (PNG IMR); and at the University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany.
Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital
Hidde Ploegh, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital
Professor Ploegh is currently a faculty member at Boston Children's Hospital (Harvard Medical School)
and senior investigator in its program in cellular and molecular medicine. As an immunologist, biochemist and biotechnologist, he is a pioneer in developing the 'sortagging method' used in protein engineering. He has contributed to our understanding of how certain viruses can avoid detection by the immune system. The sortagging method has a wide range of applications such as quantitative labeling, modification of certain proteins for therapeutic purposes etc. He contributed to the development of a microengraving method for high-throughput single cell assays and nanobody applications. Professor Ploegh was previously a member of the Whitehead Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and on the faculty of Harvard Medical School as the director of its graduate program in immunology. He is a member of EMBO (1986), a correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997) , a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000) and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2016).
Former Director of the Division of Malaria and Parasitic Diseases, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA)
Shin-Hyeong Cho, Ph.D.
Former Director of the Division of Malaria and Parasitic Diseases, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA)
Dr. Cho received his Ph.D. in veterinary parasitology, a cornerstone of veterinary medicine. He joined the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) department of parasitology in 1997. He continued his tenure at KDCA for more than 20 years as a research officer and then as the parasitology department director.
During his time at KDCA, his research focused on developing a dual vaccine system as the head of the Malaria control R&D team, developing natural herb therapies for Malaria, and developing Malaria elimination and surveillance models. Dr. Cho has made significant contributions to the elimination of parasitic diseases both in academic and practical spheres. Since 2010, he has published numerous papers to SCI journals and registered three patents on improving parasite detection and diagnosis. He is considered South Korea's top expert in Malaria prevention and surveillance.
Yonsei University, Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Chulmin Joo, Ph.D.
Yonsei University, Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Dr. Joo's researches are at the forefront of biomedical optics, biomedical optical imaging, and biomedical optical sensor technologies. While a professor at Yonsei University, he also worked at General Electric's Global Research Center, leading research in academia and the market.
Dr. Joo received his doctorate at MIT and his bachelor's at KAIST. He received numerous accolades, including Yonsei University Engineering Innovation Awards (2018, 2020), GE Global Research Inventor Award (2009, 2010), Samsung Electronics Humantech Best Publication Award (2007), and MIT's $50K Hatsopoulos Innovation Award (2005).
