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Senyon Choe, born in Seoul, Korea, graduated from Seoul National University in 1980. For his postgraduate study in biophysics, he studied in the laboratory of Robert Stroud at UCSF, and received his Ph.D degree in biophysics from University of California, Berkeley, in 1987. His first major scientific discovery is the structure of diphtheria toxin in 1992 carried out at UCLA in the laboratory of David Eisenberg at UCLA. He joined the Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, in 1993 as the first founding faculty member of the Institute's Structural Biology laboratory. He is best known for his studies at Salk Institute on potassium channels, TGF-beta receptors, and a membrane-integrating Bacillus protein, Mistic.

He has been a faculty member of Biology at the University of California, San Diego since 1993. He directs the joint Center for Biosciences in San Diego (jCBS) he founded and the joint Center for Biosciences in Songdo, Korea (jCB) in 2008 in order to develop human therapeutic biologics using engineered TGF-beta ligands. He has been elected to a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1999.