Ohsang Kwon, MD

Department of Dermatology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Ohsang Kwon, MD, PhD is currently a Professor at the Department of Dermatology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. He clinically specializes in alopecia of both male and female, the scalp diseases, and hair restoration surgery. His research interests are mechanism of alopecia and hair follicle regeneration. He is conducting fundamental experiments in the field of stem cell biology and regeneration of hair follicles and trying to develop new treatment for hair loss including the experimental and translational approach of allogeneic hair transplantation. He has been actively conducting on hair-restore clinical trials, including the landmark phase 3 clinical trial to validate the efficacy and safety of dutasteride in male pattern hair loss.

Dr. Kwon received his medical degree from Seoul National University College of Medicine in 1994 and Ph.D degree from Graduate School, Seoul National University in 2005. He received Dermatology residency and fellowship training at the Seoul National University Hospital. He also worked as a visiting scholar at the laboratory of Dr. George Cotsarelis at the University of Pennsylvania from 2007 to 2009.

He joined the faculty at the Seoul National University and began to serve as a physician at the Seoul National University Hospital in 2005.