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UNIST SIGNS COOPERATION MOU WITH SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY BUNDANG HOSPITAL

The signing ceremony of MoU between UNIST and SNUBH Biomedical Research Institute took place on April 11, 2022. The Office of University Industry Relations at UNIST has recently embarked on a new partnership with the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital Biomedical Research Institute, in an effort...

Scientists develop New Platform Technology for Personalized Cancer Therapy

The work by Distinguished Professor Kyungjae Myung's team has been published in PNAS. A new therapy called CINDELA (Cancer-Specific InDel Attacker) employs CRISPR-Cas9 to kill cancer cells without affecting normal tissues. Diagnosis of cancers may be one of the worst news to patients and their families. Conventional...

New Study Unveils Subjective Optimality in Finite Sequential Decision-Making

Their findings have been published in the December 2021 issue of PLoS Comput. Biol. There are many decision problems in life that are sequential and constrained by a certain time window. Although mathematically derived optimal solutions exist, it has been reported that humans often deviate from...

New Study Unveils Humans Use Forward Thinking to Exploit Social Controllability

A research team, affiliated with UNIST recently published a study that looked at how people exploit the controllability of their social environment. To understand how a sense of control over others may influence the brain’s decision-making processes, the research team tested the ability of healthy...

Seven UNIST Faculty Named to Highly Cited Researchers 2021 List

Seven UNIST researchers have once again distinguished themselves with inclusion in the prestigious ‘Highly Cited Researchers (HCR)‘ for 2021, compiled annually by Clarivate Plc. Published on November 16, the annual list includes researchers with multiple papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for their...

Scientists Explore the Creation of Artificial Organelles

The findings of this research have been published and selected as the front cover of Nature Catalysis on September 14, 2021. The human body is made of numerous different types of cells, which have small compartments known as organelles to perform complex biochemical reactions. These compartments...

UNIST and IBS held workshop on brain science

On June 29, UNIST BME and IBS Center for Cognition and Sociality held the workshop on brain science to share research achievements and seek opportunities on collaborative project. The event has been attended by Dean Ji Hyun Kim (College of Information-Bio Convergence Engineering, UNIST), Head Wonggyu...