Keratoprostheses and Artificial Corneas, a famous US textbook on keratoprostheses Seoul-type keratoprostheses (Seoul KPro) developed by SNU Hospital was allotted an entire chapter in Keratoprostheses and Artificial Corneas, a famous US textbook on keratoprostheses. This is the first time a surgical technology developed...

Professor KANG Chang Hyun Professor Chang Hyun Kang (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, SNU Hospital) reported a successful case of treating a Jeune syndrome (asphyxiating thoracic dysplasia) patient using thoracic cage enlargement. Children with Jeune syndrome have rib cages that are significantly smal...

Professor BAEK Sung Hee Every mammal, including human beings, grows as an embryo divides into multiple cells and builds organs. Ability to differentiate comes from ‘pluripotent’ embryonic stem cells, which have the potential to develop into any types of cells or tissue depending on the specific type of signal or stimul...

Professor Shin discovered two adult males, one adult female, and one child, next to whom a pot with grain and shell bracelets found. Professor Shin Dong Hoon (College of Medicine) and an excavation team from Deccan College in India excavated the remains of a Bronze Age family in Rakhigarhi. Rakhigarhi, a village in Har...

Professor KIM Youn Sang Professor Kim Youn Sang’s research team (Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology) has developed a thin film diode which can be used to make transparent displays. Formerly, transparent thin film diodes were made by combining P-type and N-type semiconductors (PN junction diodes). But...

Complete Works of LI Bai translated by Professor LEE Yeong Ju Professor Lee YeongJu (Department of Chinese and Chinese Literature) made a complete translation of mid-Tang dynasty poet Li Bai’s poetry. One thousand seventy-two poems are ascribed to Li Bai and the complete translations had to be published in eight books....

Professor CHO Kuk Professor Cho Kuk (School of Law), who teaches criminal and criminal procedure law, is the most frequently cited Korean legal scholar. According to the National Research Foundation of Korea, Professor Cho’s work has been cited a total of 280 times from 2004 to February 2015. He published forty papers ...

Professor YOUN Jae Ryoun Professor YOUN Jae Ryoun (Department of Materials Science) and his research team have developed an innovative method to fabricate polymer composites with well dispersed graphene particles in the matrix resin by using solvent free powder mixing and in-situ polymerization of a low viscosity oligo...

Professor HONG Byung Hee Professor CHO Sung-Pyo Bubbles are called bubbles because they vanishes so quickly before our eyes. However, bubbles survive quite a long time in nanoscale and affect our lives. Divers’ disease (decompression sickness), for example, is known to be caused by these nano-size bubbles remaining in ...

Professor KIM Jin-Soo Professor Hyunseok JEONG’s research team (Department of Physics and Astronomy) has developed a new Bell-measurement scheme to teleport photons with high success probability. Photons are a promising candidate for quantum information. But the standard Bell measurement using linear optics and photo d...

Professor SONG YongSang Professors SONG YongSang (School of Medicine) and Duhee BANG (Yonsei University) have discovered why targeted cancer therapy shows high rates of failure in treating ovarian cancer. The research team collected 11 spatially separated tumor samples from a stage three ovarian cancer patient and perf...

Professor ZHANG Byoung-Tak leads the research on brain-inspired computational intelligence technologies. Professor ZHANG Byoung-Tak’s research team (Department of Computer Science and Engineering) has developed an imaginative computer program that can acquire information contained in videos and make up words or dialogu...