Excellent research achievements and contributions to development of the pharmaceutical industry
Development of drug delivery system such as new improved drugs and research on new drug formulation
[October 23, 2015]
College of Pharmacy Professor Yong Cheol-soon (59) received the ‘Yoon Gwang-yeol Pharmacy Award’.
At the 2015 Pharmaceutical Society of Korea Fall Academic Conference held at the Hotel Inter-Burgo EXCO in Daegu on the 22nd, Professor Yong Cheol-soon received the Yoon Gwang-yeol Pharmacy Award for his excellent research achievements and contributions to the development of the pharmaceutical industry.
The ‘Yoon Gwang-yeol Pharmacy Award’ is an award co-sponsored with the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea with funding by the Buchaepyo Gasong Foundation (President Yoon Do-joon, Chairman of Dong Wha Pharm. Co.). It is the eighth year of this award that is granted to members who made great contributions to the development of the pharmaceutical industry and displayed excellent research achievements for at least ten years.
Professor Yong developed various drug delivery systems including new improved drugs and researched new drug formulations. He is currently engaged in research for next-generation drug delivery substances such as research on advancing drug delivery nano-particles to reduce tolerance and side effects while maximizing effects of anti-cancer drugs. In the past ten years, he has been highly active in research and published 182 SCI theses, while registering and applying for 37 patents.
Professor Yong earned his PhD at the University of South Carolina in the United States and was appointed as a professor of pharmacology at YU in 1991. He also served as the Dean of the YU College of Pharmacy, Dean of the Graduate School of Clinical Pharmacology, Chief of the Pharmaceutical Development Research Center, and Director of the BK21 Project Team. Outside of the university, he served as the chairperson of the Korean Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology, Vice Chairman and Yeongnam District Director of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea, chairperson of the 2013 AFPS (Asian Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences) organization committee and its senior vice-chairman. Furthermore, he was registered in the ‘Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2015’, which is one of the world’s top three biographical dictionaries, as well as the ‘IBC Top 100 Professionals’ of the Cambridge IBC (International Biographical Centre) of England.
Professor Yong is currently active in various areas for the development of Korea’s pharmaceutical industry by serving as the APFS chairperson, chairperson of the Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology Subcommittee, Vice-chairperson of the 2017 FIP (International Pharmaceutical Federation) Seoul General Assembly, Korean Association of Pharmacy Education Practice Committee chairperson, Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service Medicine Coverage Assessment committee member, Ministry of Food and Drug Safety advisor, National Health Personnel Licensing and Examination Board Pharmacy Foreign University Accreditation Review Committee member, Ministry of Health and Welfare independent review process reviewer, and vice-chairperson of the Korean Pharmaceutical Association International Committee.
