Myung did his postdoctoral training at
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in the University of California, San Diego from 1999 to 2002 under Professor
Richard Kolodner. He was awarded with a research fellowship from the Damon-Runyon-Winchell Cancer Research Foundation during the post-doc period. His first appointment was as an investigator and section head in the Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch of the
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) under the
National Institutes of Health. He was promoted to a senior investigator and section head in 2009, a position he held until 2014. In addition to his position at the National Human Genome Research Institute, he concurrently held a position at
POSTECH in the Division of Molecular and Life Science as an adjunct professor from 2011 until 2014. From 2013, he worked as an adjunct professor at
KAIST in the Department of Biological Sciences and at the
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in the School of Nano-Bioscience and Chemical Engineering. The following year he fully relocated to
Ulsan where he became a distinguished professor in the School of Life Sciences at UNIST while also becoming the founding director of the IBS Center for Genomic Integrity, a collaboration with the
Institute for Basic Science. Myung has been a guest associate editor for the journal
PLoS Genetics, a guest editor for
Mutation Research, and been on the Editorial Board for
Genome Instability and Disease,
Genomics,
Genome Integrity, and
Molecular and Cellular Biology. He is also a member of the
American Association for Cancer Research,
Genetics Society of America, Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association,
Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society,
Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Korean Society for Integrative Biology. == Honors and awards ==