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- Professor Uhm Sung Ho's laboratory team reported innovative ways to improve lung cancer diagnosis
- Professor Uhm Sung Ho's laboratory team reported innovative ways to improve lung cancer diagnosis Lung cancer diagnosis was not only expensive but also took about three weeks. Now available with lower price and 3 hours of extracorporeal diagnosis. Propose new indicators for future disease prevention and customized treatment through simultaneous determination of multiple genes A team of researchers led by Uhm Sung-ho, a professor at the school of chemical engineering, and a team of researchers led by Ahn Myung-joo, a professor at the Department of Blood Cells at medical school, said they have found ways to dramatically improve lung cancer diagnosis. The lung cancer examination, which used to cost about three weeks, was made possible by in vitro diagnosis within three hours due to low prices, and is expected to contribute greatly to lung cancer screening and treatment. The study was conducted with full support from the post-genome multi-department dielectric project in the health and medical technology R&D project hosted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and was selected as a cover painting of 'Advanced Biosystems', the highest authority in the field of multidisciplinary science, and published in an online edition on June 14. The research team developed high-performance nucleic acid nano-structure-graphin oxide to realize high-speed, real-time, multiple diagnostics of certain genetic combinations of lung cancer diseases without PCR. The time required to diagnose cancer has been dramatically reduced and the method was applied to liquid biopsy, emerging as a noninvasive, patient-friendly cancer diagnosis. This opened up the simultaneous diagnostic method of multiple biomarkers of lung cancer applicable to liquid biopsies (early, late-stage, recurrent) lung cancer treatment models for the first time. The institute, which participated as the first author of the study, developed a selectively discriminating nucleic acid-structure platform that identifies the combination of specific micro RNA groups known as cancer cell fingerprint genes that contain information on the progression of normal cells to cancer cells and epithelial growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene variations in lung cancer cases. The platform also enables the distinction of point mutations, which show the difference between one single gene mutation. In addition, multiple biomarkers will be identified within three hours, taking a step closer to diagnosing hyperprecision cancer (especially lung cancer). Changes in specific genes or changes in the rate of expression of genetic material are thought to affect the occurrence and progression of cancer. In the case of lung cancer, EGFR gene variation is typical, and between 35 and 50 percent of Asian patients are affected. Recently, it has been studied that the development of micro RNA directly affects the production of cancerous tumors, and this has drawn great attention. In order to detect these genes, the target bio-samples, need to be secured in an invasive. surgical manner. This causes significant physical and mental pain for the patient and the use of technology is quite limited depending on the location of the tumor. Furthermore, the genetic testing process takes weeks to complete even after the tissue has been collected. Therefore, a patient-friendly diagnostic method is urgently needed to evaluate patient's drug suitability and resistance in a comprehensive way. In this study, a high-speed diagnostic platform applied to blood was developed. Verification of variation in the EGFR gene can be actively used in prescribing therapeutic agents, and simultaneous identification of micro RNA groups will greatly contribute to the discovery of new cancer biomarkers and the establishment of treatments. The research team built a nanobar-coding platform system as a new nano-hybrid material between the fluorescent nucleic acid biomolecules and the graphene oxide. The system is designed to selectively react with micro RNA originating from lung cancer and its specific genetic biomarkers, and is designed to enable certain fluorescent switches to react and turn on themselves in the presence of certain biomarkers. This can be applied to a variety of genetic biomarkers at the same time and can be used in various ways, including gene diagnosis and in prevention kits, in clinical trials. In fact, it addressed the potential for precision medicine for the first time by addressing the comprehensive challenges of clinical kits, and this reagents platform is being commercialized from DNANO (CEO: Choi Yoo-jung) to the name FluorographTM. Professor Eom Sung-ho said, "The reduced examination time and applicability to liquid biopsy are realized by enabling real-time monitoring of drug efficacy in combination with rapid treatment prescription in actual clinical diagnosis. It will be commercialized and evolve into a form like a pregnancy kit, providing convenience for health and welfare in everyday life as soon as possible.
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- 작성일 2019-06-24
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- The 1st SKKU Nobel Class Forum
- The 1st SKKU Nobel Class Forum The 1st SKKU Nobel Class Forum, organized by the College of Engineering and Energy Frontier Lab, was held on May 29 (Wed) under the theme of "The Nobel Prize Winning Act" and "The Rough Journey to the Noble Prize" at the Auditorium of Samsung Library in the Natural Science Campus. A total of 250 undergraduate and graduate students attended the event. In his welcoming speech, Chancellor ‘Shin Dong-ryul’ expressed expectations for the forum, saying that it will serve as a cornerstone for our university to produce Nobel laureates and achieve its 50th global TOP ranking in global university evaluations. Nobel Prize-winning judge ‘Sven Lidin’ described Alfred Nobel's life and will, and the trends and changes of the Nobel Prize under the theme of "The Nobel Prize Winning Act.“ Under the theme of "The Rough Journey to the Nobel Prize," Olov Amelin, former director of the Nobel Museum, used three keywords: failure, ignorance and serendipity to explain the Nobel Prize winners and cases. Starting with the SKKU Nobel Class Forum, the College of Engineering and Energy Frontier Lab will provide special lectures on Nobel laureates to pave the way for the Nobel Prize.
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- 작성일 2019-06-18
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- Basic Research in S&E... Selecting 22 Research institutes for new Infrastructure Establishment
- Basic Research in S&E... Selecting 22 Research institutes for new Infrastructure Establishment - http://news.mt.co.kr/mtview.php?no=2019052912008274637 - Twenty-two new science and engineering institutes have been selected this year as "University Infrastructure Research Institute" which will be promoted as a research hub for universities. MINISTRY OF EDUCATION announced the result of its selection of "University Infrastructure Research Institute" in the field of science and engineering together with the Korea Research Foundation and the Korea Basic Science Support Institute. The project to support the university's research center is aimed at increasing young researchers and strengthening the overall research capabilities of universities by designating a subsidiary research center that will be a research hub for universities. The selected research institutes will hire full-time researchers and research assistants to carry out their research and foster up-and-coming researchers specialized in the field. A total of 92 university-focused laboratories are operating this year, including those that were previously selected and continue to receive support. Research Center for Advanced Materials Technology, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) is selected (PI Nae-Eung Lee, School of Advanced Materials Science & Engineering), and 700 million won annually will be supported up to nine years. "In order for universities to become globally competitive, we need to make more efforts to improve their academic research capabilities" and "I will do my best to contribute to enhancing the competitiveness of science and engineering research in universities." said Lee Seung-bok, an administrator of university studies policy in the MINISTRY OF EDUCATION.
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- 작성일 2019-06-17
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- Smart manufacturing research team selected for the “EUREKA SMART”
- Smart manufacturing research team from the Dept. of Industrial Engineering (College of Engineering) was selected to take part in an international joint research project called, “EUREKA SMART” (Director: Prof. Sangdo ROH, Participants: Prof. Hyunjung KIM, Dr.Yongshin KANG). The name of the project is, “Cyber Physical Assembly and Logistics Systems in Global Supply Chains, C-PALS”. The research team was accredited by the board of EUREKA SMART advanced manufacturing last July (S0101-C-PALS) and it is the first and only research team in Korea to take part in the EUREKA SMART program. This project aims for the development and application of assembly/supply smart app and also a development of platform and cloud service based with CPS. In Korea,Yura Co. and Dexsta Co. will join the project along with global companies such as SCANIA, ERICSSON, H&D Wireless and the Royal Institute of Technology. The research fund is KRW 4,100,000,000 for the three-year period.
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- 작성일 2019-06-17
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- SKKU CIEE – KOCEMA Construction Equipment Manufacturers SC Business Agreement
- SKKU CIEE – KOCEMA Construction Equipment Manufacturers SC Business Agreement SKKU CIEE(Center for Innovative Engineering Education) signed a MOU with Construction Equipment Manufacturers SC of KOCEMA(Korea Construction Manufacturers Association) (Chairman Dong-yeon Son, CEO of Doosan Infracore) to raise engineering human resource of creative intelligence information for new futuristic industry on May 22th. CIEE is performing 「Support Training of Engineering Human Resource for Creative Fusion Technology」since 2018, The CIEE has the object to “develope intelligence information connect technology and raise engineering human resource for new fusion industry Tech-Biz” supported by MOTIE(Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy) and KIAT(Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology). The object of this agreement is to build close cooperation between SKKU CIEE and KOCEMA and cooperate to raise human resource of construction manufacturer industry. The main content of the agreement includes the cooperation of 6 sectors such as raising human resource of construction manufacturer industry and establishing linkage system for industry-education, and SKKU CIEE and KOCEMA is going to push forward this agreement very actively. SKKU CIEE and KOCEMA will operate 「lecture for designing components of CATIA」on this July together with 12 cooperative universities belonging to SKKU CIEE (Gachon Univ, Kangwon Univ, Kyunghee Univ, Dankook Univ, Daejin Univ, Sungkyul Univ, Ajou Univ, Inchoen Nat’ Univ, Inha Univ, Hankyong Nat’ Univ, Hanyang Univ Erica, and Hoseo Univ). Jun-Young Lee, chairman of school of engineering and CIEE said “Through this agreement, students can have ability required from industry and become capable engineers who lead 4th industrial era.” SKKU CIEE will implement a program for raising engineering human resource for intelligence information connect with various SCs later.
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- 작성일 2019-06-17
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- SKKU, selected as R-WeSET Project
- SKKU, selected as R-WeSET Project Our university, SKKU was selected as the Gyeonggi Regional Project Group for the 'Regional-Women Empowerment in Science, Engineering and Technology'; (R-WeSET) in 2019. Our university receive the funding of about 600 million won from government until 2021, and will operate various education programs to raise female science and technology talent to increase the utilization of female human resources in science and technology fields. The R-WeSET project, supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Korea Research Foundation, and the Korea Women's Science and Technology Identity Center, lowers entry barriers for female students through improved awareness in science and engineering majors with low female ratio, searches for the majors with mismatch between graduation and job opportunities through demand surveys, and produces distinguished women students via employment development and industry-university link programs. Therefore, our university's R-WeSET project (Chairman Sohn Mi-ae, Professor of System Management Engineering / deputy dean of College of Engineering/ vice-head of Engineering Education Innovation Center) let female middle and high school students participate in Sungkwunkwan engineering program [career exploration], [career experience], [mentoring for career] so as to help them find their dreams and talents and enter into science and engineering college. This project will support female college students of the majors with wide mismatch in employment rates between male and female by developing and participating the V Creator Academy curriculum. we will help them to grow into data-based value-generating innovative female creators (Value Creator; V Creator below). Since 'Woman Into Engineering' (WIE) project in 2006, our university has been focused on nurturing talented female science and technology scientist, selected as Center for Women in Science Engineering and Technology (WISET) in 2016 and Women in Engineering-Undergraduate Leading Program (WE-UP) in 2016 consecutively. Our university will serve as a cradle for the teaching of talented female in science and technology fields and fostering women future value creator in the fourth industrial revolution era.
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- 작성일 2019-06-17
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- A research team led by Prof. Lee and Byun, Developing High Performance SOFC Based on Metal Functional Layers
- Professor Lee Won-young and Byun Do-young, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Development of High Performance Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Based on Metal Functional Layers - ACS Applied Energy Meteorites, an international journal of the field of energy (ACS Applied Energy Materials) Published - [Figure 1] ACS Applied Energy Materials cover figure Professor Lee Won-young of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Professor Byun Do-young's research team (Dr. Choi Min-ki, co-author Hwang Sang-yeon, Ph.D. program), said they published the results on the development of high-performance solid oxide fuel cells based on metal functional layers in ACS Applied Energy Materials, one of the world's most prestigious journals in the field of energy. Professor Lee Won-young and his research team successfully printed high-conductivity metals such as silver, nickel and aluminum on the electrolyte and air pole surfaces of solid oxide fuel cells using EHD jet printing, and built a high-performance solid oxide fuel cell system that operates at medium and low temperatures of 650 degrees or lower. Through the metal functional layer, the research team confirmed that the supply and distribution of electrons essential to the electrolyte and air pole response of solid oxide fuel cells are facilitated, thereby reducing the polarizing resistance of electrodes directly indicating electrochemical performance of electrodes by about 10 times, while improving the power density of fuel cells by about two times. Professor Lee Won-young said, "We expect that existing solid oxide fuel cells will be able to overcome the limitations of performance by introducing metal functional layers and contribute greatly to development of technologies in commercialization phase, especially since EHD printing method that is easy for large- and high-speed processes." The research was carried out with support from the Global Frontier Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Strategic Task Force of the Korea Research Foundation and the New Research Support Project, and was published online on May 6 as a cover for ACS Applied Energy Materials, an international journal in the energy field. [Figure 2] Metal functional layer structure printing using EHD jet printing techniques (a) an air-polar fabrication scheme with a metal functional layer (b) an optical image of a metal functional layer printed precisely at intervals of 50 μm, utilizing materials of silver, nickel and aluminum [Figure 3] Electrochemical performance evaluation and modulus of solid oxide fuel cell with metal functional layer
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- 작성일 2019-06-17
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- Research team led by Prof. Kim Sun-kook, Developing color-changing optical-based building durability evaluation system
- Research team led by Prof. Kim Sun Kook, The school of Advanced Materials Science & Engineering, Developing color-changing optical-based building durability evaluation system - Advanced Materials, an international journal of science, published online on April 15.- A research team led by Kim Sun-kook, a professor of Advanced Materials Science & Engineering, has published a paper on the durability evaluation system of color-changing optical-based buildings operating in the interior concrete in Advanced Materials (IF=21.95), one of the most prestigious academic journals in the world. Professor Kim Sun-kook and his research via the collaboration with Lee Han-seung, professor of architectural engineering at Hanyang University, established a color-changing optics-based building durability evaluation system to quantify one or more deterioration factors within concrete and assess the degree of corrosion inside the concrete. The research team implemented a multi-function monitoring technology that can detect chloride ion and pH, a typical deterioration causing concrete corrosion, by stacking IGZO phototransistor arrays on the PI flexible substrates, and a membrane that shows color change in response to external factors. [Figure 1] A color-changing optical-based building durability evaluation system This technology monitors the intensity of light irradiated from the side of the SOF in the outermost IGZO photo- transistor array, where the irradiation light is absorbed and reflected by the color changing membrane located between the SOF and the flexible photo-transistor array, and finally the photo-transmitter detects the amount of light penetrating the membrane. Therefore, the color variation of the indicator caused from the external environment (increasing the concentration of chloride ion, pH, etc.) changes the amount of transmittance detected by the photo-transistor and obtains electrical signal about the corresponding factors. "We hope that this research will break the limitations of the existing durability evaluation system and become a next-generation smart building durability evaluation system with high sensitivity and versatility," said Professor Kim Sun-kook. [Figure 2] Results of corrosion monitoring of the durability evaluation system Professor Kim Sun-kook is actively conducting research on the development and systemization of next- generation multi-functional nano bioelectronics, including the development of 2D materials and flexible elements. The research was conducted by the support of the Korea Research Foundation's Leading Research Center Support Project (the Center for Innovation in Durability of Construction Structures).
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- 작성일 2019-05-27
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- 'Kim Soon-moon Scholarship' Ceremony for the 1st semester of 2019
- The College of Engineering (Dean, Professor Lee Joon-young) held a scholarship ceremony for the first semester of 2019 at the Learning Factory of the Research & Business Center at 11 a.m. on May 8(Wed.) to deliver the scholarship to students. At the event, President Shin Dong-ryeol, Kim Soon-moon's family representative Professor Kim Jae-hoon, Dean Lee Joon-young, and the deans of Engineering and tutors attended to award scholarships to five students. Each student received 5,000,000 won, in total of 25,000,000 won in scholarships. Kim Soon-moon Scholarship is a scholarship fund created with donations donated by Kim Soon-moon (the father of Kim Jae-hoon, a mechanical engineering professor), and has selected scholarship students since the second semester of 2018 and will continue to select scholarship students according to Kim Soon- moon's wishes.
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- 작성일 2019-05-27
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- 'Kim Soon Moon Scholarship' Conferment Ceremony
- On November 14th, The 'Kim Soon Moon scholarship' conferment ceremony will be held at 1st meeting room on 2nd Engineering Building. The ‘KIM Soon Moon Scholarship’ was founded by the Old Mr. Kim Soon Moon who is father of Kim Jae Hoon, professor in Mechanical Engineering, in order to support students who study hard in difficult environments. President CHUNG Kyu Sang, Vice president HYEON Seon Hae, LEE Jun Yeong, Dean of College of Engineering, and other professors and students attended the ceremony.
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- 작성일 2018-11-16
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