Optical images of cells in a skin-on-a-chip device. The “Skin Avatar,” a roughly two centimetre-sized chip modeling the human skin, is the latest in “Organ-on-a-chip” technology, undertaken by SNU Hospital Professor Tae Hyun Choi and Professor Sanghoon Lee of Korea University. The research began in August 2014. Profess...

Professor KIM Jin-Soo In 2015, Professor Jin-Soo Kim of the Department of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Genome Engineering in the Research Institute of Basic Sciences, successfully edited the DNA of lettuce using the CRISPR-Cas9 “DNA scissors.” The CRISPR-Cas9 “DNA scissors” technique was a breakthrough in t...

Professor MOOK Inhee (College of Medicine) On December 23 2016, a research team led by Professor Inhee Mook, SNU Department of Biomedical Sciences, and Professor KyoHan Ahn, POSTEC (Pohang University of Science and Technology) Department of Chemistry, discovered a biomarker that indicates the onset and the progress of ...

Dust mites, which can live in the home in clothes, sofas, carpets, and blankets, are notoriously difficult to get rid of, as mere laundering is often insufficient to remove them. Exposure to dust mite allergens is one of the causes of asthma. Professor AHN Young Joon of the College of Agricultural Science is the first ...

LEE Kwangho (left) and PARK Senghwan of Axis Light Team, winner of the 2016 E2 FESTA Capstone Design Award A transparent LED (light emitting diode) film, invented by a team of SNU engineering students was chosen top prize in the Capstone Design project. Capstone Design is the term used to describe a creative, comprehen...

Professor PARK Chung-Mo When we think of how plants undergo the process of photosynthesis, we often think that only the part above ground is capable of detecting and reacting to sunlight. On November 2, Professor PARK Chung-Mo (Department of Biology) and his team overturned this long-accepted notion by discovering that...

Professor KIM Ho (Graduate School of Public Health) Professor KIM Ho (Graduate School of Public Health) found that there is a higher risk of cardiac arrhythmia when there is a greater diurnal range during the change of seasons. Diurnal range is the difference between the daily maximum and daily minimum temperature. Nor...

Professor LEE Ho Young at the center and her lab members Professor LEE Ho Young (SNU College of Pharmacy) was recently selected to receive funding from the Research Leader Support Program, a project administered by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) and the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. The...

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...