5.2 billion KRW project with the national and Daegu funding until December 2022
Only hospital in the Daegu, Gyeongbuk and Gangwon regions... Fostering young medical scientist
Expected to be a role model for the local hub bio industry
[June 20, 2019]
<Panoramic view of the YU Medical Center>
The YU Medical Center (Medical Director Kim Tae-nyeon) was recently selected for the local hub innovative medical scientist joint research for the ‘2019 Innovative Medical Scientist Joint Research Project’ hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Ministry of Health and Welfare. It was the only hospital selected for this in the Daegu, Gyeongbuk and Gangwon-do regions.
With the selection for this project, the YU Medical Center will take part in a 5.25 billion KRW project comprised of national funding and funding from Daegu from July of this year to December 2022.
The ‘2019 Innovative Medical Scientist Joint Research Project’ aims at providing research opportunities to develop customized medical technologies based on clinical ideas utilizing the research infrastructure of medical institutes to specialists that are assistant professors or lower for hospitals equipped with research infrastructure such as university hospitals. Its goal is to focus on fostering young medical scientists based on the commercialization of research results.
This was the result of the YU Medical Center being recognized for its high quality research and education infrastructure (5th in nation for SCI-grade theses per clinical faculty for the third straight year) and the systemized commercialization life cycle support capacities possessed by the Daegu-Gyeongbuk Medical Innovation Foundation. It is expected that this will act as a cornerstone to grow into a research hospital model that can promote bio R&D synergy in the future.
Biomedical Research Center Director Won Gyu-jang (Professor of Endocrinology) will supervise the project and it is expected that a comprehensive research platform will be established that encompasses research capacity support and empowerment of sub-supervisors, as well as for joint research spanning across brainstorming for 11 sub-projects, patent applications and technology commercialization
Biomedical Research Office Won Gyu-jang said, “We will foster systematic clinical medicine scientists focusing on the hospital and promote joint research between science and engineering experts and doctors to construct a flexible partnership that develops commercial technologies. Furthermore, we will connect clinical ideas with customized medical technologies to overcome the explosive growth in medical demand for chronic diseases due to the aging society in order to construct a ‘smart healthcare platform for overcoming age-related diseases’ to become a role model of the local hub bio industry.”
