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...

Professor KIM Jung Hoon Professor Jung Hoon KIM (School of Medicine) and Dr. LEE Tae-gul (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science) developed a treatment using nanoparticles for retinal disease which can lead to sight loss. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which creates new blood vessels, is known as...

SNU was selected as one of the three best institutes for technology transfer and commercialization. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) reviewed 300 public institutes and made the ‘2015 Technology Transfer and Commercialization Index.’ SNU was ranked h...

Professor KIM Jin-Soo CRISPR, a genome editing method, was chosen as Science’s 2015 Breakthrough of the Year. In 2015 scientists succeeded in creating a ‘gene drive’ which could eliminate pests or the diseases they carry, and also in the first deliberate editing of the DNA of human embryos using CRISPR. Genome editing ...

Professors HUR Chung-Kil (left) and YI Kwangkeun Professors YI Kwangkeun and Chung-Kil HUR (Department of Computer Science and Engineering) developed ‘VeriDraw,’ a public kindergarten entrance selection program. Currently, each public kindergarten holds a public drawing where prospective students and their parents come...