Our paper entitled “Tailored polyethylene glycol grafting on porous nanoparticles for enhanced targeting and intracellular siRNA delivery” has been published in Nanoscale as an inside front cover. In this study, we proposed a secondary packaging method on mesoporous surface of nanoparticles ensuring high drug loading capacity while preventing protein corona formation for target receptor recognition […]
Read More »Excited to announce that Suhyun Kim, Minju Kim, and Yonghoe Koo received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society Asia-Pacific Chapter Conference 2022 held in Jeju. Congrats!
Read More »Suhyun Kim received the Outstanding Paper Award at Korean Biomaterials Society annual meeting 2022 held in Jeju. Her poster presentation entitled “Magnetic nanoparticle-based specific enrichment for biomarker of transplant rejection in the human blood samples” has been attracted much attention from the audience and committee of the conference. Congrats, Suhyun!
Read More »Two graduate students, Eunjin Lee and Jihyun Lee, have joined our group for graduate study in Biomedical Engineering program. Eunjin majored chemistry in undergraduate at Chungnam National University, and joined our group on April 2022 for research internship. She will continue to study on mRNA delivery using nanoparticles. Jihyun majored nursing in undergraduate at Gachon […]
Read More »Five undergraduate students joined our lab for internship research in Spring 2022. Younjin Jeong (UNIST BME Junior) and Ryeonggi Lee (UNIST BME Senior) will carry out the Capstone project for their internship research on CRISPR delivery systems and BBB-penetrating nanoparticles, respectively. Yunkeong Cho (Chemical Engineering in Pukyong National University), Minjae Kim (Chemical Engineering, Incheon National […]
Read More »Collaborative research with Prof. Joo H. Kang (UNIST BME) and Prof. Kihyuk Shin (Dermatology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital) will be supported by Korean Fund for Regenerative Medicine (funded by Ministry of Science, and ICT & Ministry of Health and Welfare) for 5 years. This project will develop an accelerated tissue regeneration platform using microfluidics […]
Read More »Dr. Jounghyun Yoo joined our lab for his postdoctoral study on BBB-penetrating nanorobot development. He is an expert in functional nanomaterials for bioimaging and drug delivery systems. He will be visiting Prof. Wei Gao’s lab at California Institute of Technology (USA) for collaborative research on micro/nanorobot project. The BBB-targeting micro/nanorobot will open a new strategy […]
Read More »Woojung Yoo joins our lab for PhD study. She obtained BS degree in Biomedical Engineering from City University of Hong Kong, and carried out internship in our lab for Summer 2020. Welcome aboard!
Read More »A review article on the delivery systems for CRISPR-based genome editing is published in Biomedical Engineering Letters. This article provides an overview on essential elements in CRISPR/Cas systems and nanoparticle-based delivery carriers as an alternative method over viral vectors. Read the article here. Great job, Aaron and Minjong!
Read More »Prof. Jinmyoung Joo wrote a book chapter on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Nanomedicine in Advanced Imaging and Bio Techniques for Convergence Science, as a part of Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. This chapter provides in-depth understanding on nanotechnology, particularly in biomedical applications, including general concepts and recent advances of nanomedicine for clinically relevant diagnostics and […]
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