Kyung Joo Kwon-Chung (born August 16, 1933) is a South Korean-American mycologist and microbiologist who is a distinguished investigator at the National Institutes of Health.

[1] Her father, Choong Ton Kwon, was a congressman representing a south east district of the northern Kyunsang Province.

[1] Kwon-Chung received a Fulbright scholarship to pursue doctoral work in the bacteriology department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

[1] In 1966, Kwon-Chung joined the medical mycology section of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAD) laboratory of microbiology as a visiting Fogarty International Fellow working under Chester Wilson Emmons.

[2] She received honorary doctoral degree in science from the University of Wisconsin in 2009 and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Microbiology in 2017.