Professor SEO Jeongsun Professor SEO Jeongsun (College of Medicine) will participate as a co-research representative in the Genome Asia 100K Initiative led by Macrogen, a leading biotech company. The Genome Asia 100K Initiative is a non-profit consortium with participating members from 19 Asian countries with the aim o...

Professor LEE Wonjong, Leader of SNU Lattice Gauge Theory Research Center The SNU Lattice Gauge Theory Research Center, led by Professor Weonjong LEE (Department of Physics and Astronomy), has discovered a deficiency in the Standard Model. The Center found that regarding εK (epsilon K), a parameter of CP violation, exp...

Professor HONG Sung-Gul, Professor KANG Hyun-Koo, and Research Fellow LIM Woo Young Professor Sung-Gul HONG’s research team (Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering) has developed an innovative steel plate connector system for connection between precast concrete wall panels. Such a connector system is ...

Professor LEE Eun-Ju Professor Lee Eun-Ju (Department of Communication) was appointed editor-in-chief of Human Communication Research, an internationally renowned journal in the field of human communications. Human Communication Research is one of the three official journals of the International Communication Associati...

Professor SEO Kyungsuk Professor Suh Kyungsuk (College of Medicine) shared his story of saving a high school girl with congenital biliary atresia in 1999 and later helping her give birth to a son in 2014 in an interview with DongA Ilbo. Ms. KWON Soo Kyung was a high school junior when she received a liver transplant fr...

Professors HYEONG Taeghwan and PARK Chung-Mo Professors Hyeon Taeghwan (Interdisciplinary Program for Bioengineering) and Park Chung-Mo (Department of Chemistry) were included on the Thompson Reuters IP & Science 2015 World’s Most Highly Cited Researchers list. The list derives from Essential Science Indicators (ESI), ...

Professor YUN Young Ho The so-called “Well-dying Act” passed the National Assembly on January 9. Professor Young Ho Yun (College of Medicine) was the hidden driving force behind this. “We have to prepare in advance so that when the Well-dying Act comes into force in 2018 it can settle into our society,” he said. The We...

Monkey in SNU Xenotransplantation Research Centerspan> SNU Hospital’s Xenotransplantation Research Center (http://www.xenokorea.org/) reported that pig islet grafts survived and maintained normoglycemia for over six months in four of five consecutive immunosuppressed nonhuman primates. Pig islets are an alternative sou...

Wearable silicon memory chip Professor Dae Hyeong Kim’s research team (Center for Nanoparticle Research, Institute for Basic Science) has developed a wearable, fully multiplexed silicon memory array with nanocrystal floating gates. The team assembled gold nanoparticle floating gates over silicon nanomembranes using the...

Professor KIM Vic Narryspan> Professor V. Narry Kim (director of the Center for RNA Research, Institute for Basic Science) has reported the X-ray structure of DROSHA, a class 2 ribonuclease III enzyme that in humans is encoded by the DROSHA (formerly RNASE) gene. DROSHA is a key factor in creating microRNA which functi...

Alexandrium Pohangense (left) and Aduncodinium Glandula (right) Professor Hae Jin JEONG’s research team (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences) discovered a new planktonic phototrophic dinoflagellate species, which it named the Alexandrium pohangense after the coastal area (Pohang) in which it was discovered. The ...

Professor LEE Youngjo Professor Lee Youngjo (Department of Statistics) was chosen as the winner of the 2015 Korea Science Award in the field of mathematics by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, the National Research Foundation of Korea and the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. Professor Lee was r...