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Young-Jun Choe received his PhD from Seoul National University in Korea, where he studied the mechanism of the aggregation of yeast prion proteins. Subsequently, as a postdoctoral researcher, he attempted to engineer functional amyloid fibrils in the same university. Then he joined the research group of Dr. F. Ulrich Hartl at the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry in Germany to investigate how cells maintain protein homeostasis. He has been studying the fate of incomplete nascent polypeptides that are synthesized at stalled ribosomes.