Prof. Wonhwa Lee (Department of Chemistry) and Prof. Mikyung Shin (Department of Biomedical Engineering) Receive Phi Biomed Rising Researcher Award

Prof. Wonhwa Lee (Department of Chemistry) and Prof. Mikyung Shin (Department of Biomedical Engineering) were awarded the ‘Phi Biomed Rising Researcher’ award at the 2022 Korean Society for Biomaterials Fall Conference.

Korean Society for Biomaterials is an international academic society where about 3,400 domestic/international companies, universities, research labs, and medical service researchers interchange organically to develop biomedical materials for humanity’s better standards of life and find cures for diseases. The official academic journal of the society, ‘Biomaterials Research’, has the highest IF (Impact Factor) 15.863 among 132 SCIE domestic biomedical field journals with a ranking of the top 3.06%.

The Phi Biomed Rising Researchers Award is granted to young researchers of outstanding achievement in biomedical material research development who got their doctorate degree in recent 10 years, encouraging new uprising competent researchers who are expected to have continuous contribution and development for the biomedical material field to achieve and support their excellent accomplishments.

Ever since his appointment in SKKU, Prof. Lee is developing candidate materials for discovering and treating new diagnostic biomarkers based on convergence brokerage research to overcome intractable and infectious diseases, and is currently active in Korean Society for Biomaterials, Korean Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society, Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Korean Chemical Society, Korean Organoid Society, Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology as academician/edition staff. Prof. Lee have published 59 thesis papers on SCI journal in last 5 years and is also conducting various industrial projects with companies, along with other projects such as The Ministry of Science and ICT's Outstanding Rising Research Project, Basic Research Lab Support Project.

On the other hand, since her appointment at SKKU in 2019, Prof. Shin has developed various hydrogels for hemostatic, drug delivery, and 3D bioprinting based on natural imitation tissue adhesive biomolecules and is recently researching bio-interfacing technology, publishing 48 thesis papers on SCI journal in 5 years. Particularly in the last 3 years, Prof. Shin published her papers in the material field top 7% journals such as Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Nano, and Advanced Materials.