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Taekjip Ha

Taekjip Ha

Johns Hopkins University
National Academy of Sciences

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When Taekjip Ha moved from Korea to the United States to begin graduate school, he also transitioned from being a theoretical physicist to being an experimental biophysicist.  During his last few months of graduate school, he developed fluorescence resonance energy transfer, or FRET, a technique he has since used to investigate many questions in cancer and infectious disease research. Ha is currently the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Biophysics, and Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

Learn more about Dr. Ha at http://ha.med.jhmi.edu/

Talks with this Speaker

How I Became a Scientist: FRET Development (Korean)

Taekjip Ha considers being a biophysicist to be the best of both biology and physics. He uses FRET, a technology he developed, to study questions in biology. (Talk recorded in May 2016)

Taekjip Ha: How I became a scientist
Audience:
  • Student
  • Researcher
  • H. School / Intro Undergrad
  • Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 09:59

How I Became a Scientist: FRET Development

Taekjip Ha considers being a biophysicist to be the best of both biology and physics. He uses FRET, a technology he developed, to study questions in biology. (Talk recorded in February 2016)

Taekjip Ha: How I became a scientist
Audience:
  • Student
  • Researcher
  • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
  • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 09:59

Developing Single Molecule Technologies to Study Nanomachines

Taekjip Ha explains the basis of FRET and how scientists have used single molecule technologies, in combination with other tools, to study nanomachines. (Talk recorded in May 2016)