Professor Park’s new album, Nunaya Professor Park Jong Hwa has released a new album, “누나야: NUNAYA”, which contains eleven recordings of Korean children’s songs and traditional songs he arranged as piano solos. Since the age of five, Professor Park has studied the piano abroad at the Tokyo College of Music, New England ...

Professor Kim Jeong Hun Professor KIM Jeong Hun (Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine) and LEE Tae Geol (Center for Nano-Bio Measurement, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science Daejeon) have measured the capacitance (the ability of a body to store an electrical charge) of endothelial cells that c...

Professor LEE Yoon-Sik Professor Yoon-Sik Lee’s research team (Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering) has developed a surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic (SERS) barcoding system for high-throughput bioanalysis using highly sensitive SERS nanoparticles (SERS ID) which enables easy preparation and screening of co...

Professors YOON Jung-Hwan and Lee Jeong-Hoon Professors YOON Jung-Hwan and LEE Jeong-Hoon, and Green Cross Cell have co-developed a treatment for liver cancer which lowers the death rate by 79 percent. The treatment involves incubating 120ml of the patient’s blood for two to three weeks in a clean laboratory. When cyto...

Professor LEE Byoung Ho Professor Lee Byoung Ho’s research team (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) has developed a color filter that can display all three primary colors. Currently, a series of colors is generally expressed by a combination of at least three primary color pixels. Professor Lee develope...

Professor KIM Sung Hoon Professor Sung Hoon Kim (Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences) has received the 2015 Hoam Award in Medicine for his contributions to greater understanding of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase. Professor Kim first started researching aminoacyl-tRNA in 1994 when he returned to K...

Professor CHA Suk-Won Professor Cha Suk-Won has developed a few-nanometer-thick oxide coating produced by atomic layer deposition in a low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell with a noble metal-based cathode. The coating is demonstrated to enhance both thermal stability and oxygen reduction activity by a significant marg...

Professor KANG Jina, Technology Management Economics and Policy Program ”Alliance Addiction: Do Alliances Create Real Benefits?,” an article co-written by Professor Jina KANG (Department of Industrial Engineering) and Doctor Gunno PARK (Samsung SDS) was recognized by THNK, a global think tank. THNK built on Professor K...

Professor HONG Yongtaek, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering A team led by Professors Yongtaek Hong (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Zhenan BAO (Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University) has developed a novel technique which enables large area formations of organic se...

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...