Keeseon S. Eom PhD

Professor Keeseon EOM is a member and the former president of Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine; Vice President of Local Organizing Committee for 14th International Congress of Parasitology (2018); Korean Representative for World Federation of Parasitologists; Former Secretary General of Local Organizing.

He graduated and took a doctorate from Seoul National University School of Veterinary Medicine (1991); Research Professor at Korea University School of Medicine, Post-Doctoral training at Systematic Parasitology Laboratory, Immunology and Disease Resistance, U.S.A. In 1993, he described a new parasite Taenia asiatica from humans with his teacher Prof. Han-Jong Rim and organized Taenia asiatica Research Group International (2011); Founded Parasite Resource Bank of Korea National Research Resource Center (2005) & BiodiversityTanzania Wildlife Research Resource Unit of Tanzania (2013).