Dr. KIM Younghyun (Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering) Dr. KIM Younghyun (Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Advisor: Professor CHANG Naehyuck) was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation Award by the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA). This is the first time a Korean has received this award,...

Professor HONG Byung Hee (Dept. of Chemistry) Professor HONG Byung Hee HONG (Dept. of Chemistry) and Samsung Techwin have developed a way to mass produce graphene and apply it to smartphones. Graphene has high electrical conductivity and so was expected to be used in manufacturing electronic goods. However, there were ...

Professor KIM Jin-Soo (Department of Chemistry) Professor KIM Jin-Soo’s research team (Department of Chemistry) developed RNA-guided engineered nucleases (RGENs) which use enzymes to cut certain parts of DNA in order to create DNA with certain wanted characteristics. Professor Kim is one of the leading scholars in the ...

A good doctor can save thousands of patients whereas an outstanding drug can save millions of patients. This is the philosophy of Professor KIM Sung Hoon of SNU’s Dept. of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences. Professor KIM Sung Hoon Although he was from a family of doctors that goes back generations, as a...

Professor SEO Jeong Sun Korean medical researchers have found genetic mutants which cause lung cancer by analyzing a genome of cancer tissues from patients suffering from lung adenocarcinoma, which is responsible for 40% of the annual worldwide occurance of lung cancer. They also discovered four specimens of fusion gen...

The joint research team led by Chair Professor HYEON Taeghwan of SNU’s Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Professor LEE Seung Hoon of the College of Medicine has succeeded in developing a new cure for ischemic stroke.[1] Professor Hyeon, Director of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS)’s Center for Nanop...

Rarely is a flexible image conjured when thinking of robots. The term ‘robot’ is mostly associated with rigidness, with joints and hinges that squeak on. The new Meshworm, an innovative robotic worm, therefore breaks preconceived notions of robots with fresh force. A team of researchers from MIT, Harvard University and...

A team of researchers led by Professor CHOI Bong Kyu of SNU's School of Dentistry published a paper that showed a cause of periodontitis, a type of gum diseases, in the prestigious immunology journal 'Immunity' on May 25. Periodontitis is an infectious disease arising from germs in gums. As a consequence, one's gums mi...

The ministry of Education, Science, and Technology announced that a team of researchers led by Professor PARK Seung Bum of SNU's Department of Biophysics and Chemical Biology, who are also at Global Frontier Medicinal Bioconvergence Research Center (Bicon), developed a new method of detecting a target protein. The atte...

For the first time ever Korean researchers have verified the existence of a globular cluster which is made up of approximately one million stars. Because most of the celestial bodies composing globular clusters were given birth to in the early days of space's creation, confirming the presence of the clusters is seen to...

Professor BAEK Sung Hee The research team led by Professor BAEK Sung Hee of SNU's College of Natural Sciences has discovered the transmission process of genetic information from mother cell to daughter cells in the cell division procedure. Their research is expected to be the cornerstone for developing new treatments f...

With reports from the World Health Organization that Korean men rank #1 in Asia for the occurrence of colorectal cancer, Korean researchers have discovered a treatment that kills colorectal cancer cells with nanotechnology using minute particles that have the thickness of merely a ten-thousandth of a hair. The research...