The Korea Brain Research Institute (KBRI) mentioned it held the inauguration ceremony for its fifth president, Lee Seung-bok, on the principal auditorium of its headquarters in Daegu on Tuesday morning.
Lee, the brand new president, is a number one authority in mind science. As a professor at Seoul National University, he has achieved world-class ends in fundamental mind science analysis, together with nervous system growth and synaptic plasticity. He additionally participated in nationwide analysis and growth policy-making, serving as an advisory and deliberation committee member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology, co-head of the Research System Innovation Planning Group on the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), and a board member of the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies.
“I will create an innovative research ecosystem that carries out national missions based on creative fundamental research,” Lee mentioned in his inaugural deal with. To this finish, he plans to determine a full-cycle mind analysis system spanning fundamental and unique analysis to commercialization, construct a convergence hub that brings collectively home and worldwide mind analysis capabilities, and advance the utilization of mind analysis infrastructure.
Lee additionally plans to foster an open innovation ecosystem, drawing on his expertise because the thirty fifth president of the Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology (KSMCB), the nation’s largest life science society with roughly 20,000 members, and his intensive educational community.