Professor KIM Chul Woo In vitro diagnostics, a method that detects cancer and other diseases from a small blood sample, has been growing in popularity during the past few years. Led by Professor KIM Chul Woo (SNU College of Medicine), Bioinfra Inc. utilizes in vitro diagnosis to identify certain proteins in order to fi...

SNU Engineering students in Nepal with the portable vaccine storage In developing countries, electricity is scarce and many people are in need of medical treatment, especially vaccinations. Over the past few years, SNU Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Professor AHN Sung-Hoon and his team, which is comprised of his ...

SNU VDCL’s automated vehicle is driving on a highway SNU Vehicle Dynamics & Control Laboratory (VDCL) demonstrated its automated vehicle technology on the Gyeongbu Expressway. VDCL was the first research team in Korea to successfully conduct a test drive of a driverless car on the highway. Although a member of the rese...

Professor KIM Dae-Hyeong SNU Professor KIM Dae Hyeong (School of Chemical and Biological Engineering) recently developed a"soft cardiac stimulator" that can treat heart failure. In a series of animal experiments, Professor Kim monitored electrical signals flowing through the heart and sent new signals immediately after...

Professor LEE Jinho Professor LEE Jinho's research team detected a Cooper-pair density wave at an atomic level, which was a breakthrough considering that the high-TC superconductivity has been ever elusive. The research team observed atomic scale structure of Cooper-pairs in the superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x, a materi...

Professor MOOK Inhee On March 15, a team of Seoul National University medical professors led by Professor MOOK Inhee announced in the esteemed life sciences journal, Autophagy, that they have discovered a mechanism in the brain that regulates the substance which triggers Alzheimer’s disease. In 2013, scientists at the ...

(Source: Advanced Energy Materials) Professor Mansoo CHOI’s research team (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) has developed a highly efficient transparent conductive oxide (TCO)-free inverted perovskite (CH3NH3PbI3) solar cell by using a graphene transparent electrode. Careful engineering of the interf...

Professor KANG Kisuk Professor KANG Kisuk (Department of Materials Science and Engineering) has discovered the reason behind the low performance of sodium-oxygen batteries. Conflicting observations with different discharge products have inhibited the understanding of precise reactions in sodium-oxygen batteries. Profes...

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...