Professor Ahra Ko (third from left) of POSTECH’s Department of Life Sciences receives a ministerial quotation from the Ministry of Science and ICT for her contribution to the administration and utilization of nationwide bio-research sources on the ‘4th Pan-Ministerial Bio-Research Resources Achievement Exchange.’ Photo courtesy of POSTECH.
■ POSTECH introduced on the twenty fourth that Professor Ahra Ko of the Department of Life Sciences acquired a ministerial quotation from the Ministry of Science and ICT on the ‘4th Pan-Ministerial Bio-Research Resources Achievement Exchange,’ held on the Daejeon Convention Center on the nineteenth. Professor Ko was acknowledged for her contributions to the systematic administration and utilization of home bio-research sources whereas serving as an knowledgeable committee member for the Next-generation Bio Division of the National Research Foundation of Korea. She research the affect of the human microbiome on ailments and drug responsiveness and in addition serves as an affiliate editor for the worldwide journal ‘npj Biofilms and Microbiomes.’
■ KAIST introduced on the twenty fourth that Jae-geun Bae, a grasp’s scholar in Professor Jeong-ho Kim’s lab (KAIST TERA Lab), gained the ‘Best Student Paper Award’ on the worldwide semiconductor packaging convention ‘EDAPS 2025’. TERA Lab has now produced award winners for 2 consecutive years, following Tae-soo Kim’s ‘Best Paper Award’ final yr. Bae acquired the award for his paper on AI-based semiconductor design know-how on the convention held in Sapporo, Japan, beginning December 15.
■ The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) introduced on the twenty fourth that Dr. Dohyun Kim of the Department of Chemistry has acquired the ‘2025 Talent Award of Korea’. Over the 11 years from his undergraduate admission to UNIST in 2014 to incomes his doctorate this August, Dr. Kim has produced analysis achievements in chemistry for illness therapy and anti-aging. He was extremely praised for connecting fundamental analysis to publications, patents, and know-how transfers.
■ The Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) introduced on the twenty fourth that it achieved a Grade 3 rating within the nationwide and public college class of the ‘2025 Comprehensive Integrity Assessment of Public Institutions’ by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, an enchancment of 1 degree from 2023. GIST rose two ranges to attain a Grade 2 within the ‘Integrity Efforts’ indicator and scored 8.4 factors greater than the common for nationwide and public universities within the ‘Interest and Efforts of the Institution Head’ class.
■ The Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) introduced on the twenty fourth that analysis by Professor Kyung-In Jang of the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering has been chosen as the highest achievement within the convergence class of the ‘100 Excellent National R&D Achievements for 2025’. The analysis, titled ‘Development of a Wireless Telepathy Chip for Full Implantation within the Primate Brain,’ entails a fully implantable brain-neural recording machine that’s wirelessly powered with out batteries or wires. It is acknowledged because the world’s first to resolve the operational limitation problems with main applied sciences like Neuralink.
■ POSTECH introduced on the twenty fourth {that a} group led by Professor Won-Jong Kim of the Department of Chemistry and the Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology has developed a therapeutic agent for rheumatoid arthritis that’s activated solely on the web site of irritation. The analysis outcomes had been revealed within the worldwide tutorial journal ‘Advanced Healthcare Materials’. The group designed a drug that works by reacting to nitric oxide, which is produced in massive portions in severely infected joints. This can cut back the unwanted side effects brought on by the systemic immune suppression of the present drug ‘Tofacitinib.’
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