Professor Yoon Selected as HFSP Researcher
A Study on Emotional Biological Transmission Paths
UNIST (Ulsan Institute of Science and Technology) will conduct a study to reveal the principle of pores and skin scent when a particular person feels worry.
UNIST introduced on the twenty fifth that Professor Yoon Hye-jin of the Department of Life Sciences has been chosen for the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Accelerator Grant. There are seven Korean researchers named on this 12 months’s HFSP, and solely two accelerator tracks are chosen.
HFSP is a program to uncover multinational joint analysis in the discipline of life science. Since its launch in 1989, greater than 8,500 individuals from 73 international locations have utilized, and 31 of the beneficiaries have obtained Nobel Prizes and are referred to as the “Nobel Prize Fund.”
Professor Yoon’s job is to study the interplay of host metabolism with pores and skin microorganisms that reveal the principle of producing chemical alerts of worry. It is presumed that the interplay of pores and skin microorganisms with host metabolism is concerned in the course of by which the feeling of worry leads to chemical alerts emitted from the pores and skin.
Professor Yoon plans to reveal how unstable compounds launched from the pores and skin are made when a particular person feels worry and what position pores and skin microorganisms and human metabolism play in the course of. The study is carried out with researchers from the UK, Germany, and Canada.
Professor Yoon mentioned, “We will newly explain the biological transmission path of emotions by connecting metabolites, microbiomes, and chemical ecology.”
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