News
Honors & Awards
Aug 2018
Yubin got startup fund from the ministry of SMEs and startup
Congratulation!
Yubin got startup fund from the ministry of SMEs and startup
LOAD, a UNIST-based student startup, has recently been selected as tech-innovated startup team by ministry of SMEs and startups. LOAD got KRW 72 M as the startup fund. Congratulations!
Paper published
July 2018
Issac's PHD (Paper Hanging Drop) Chip paper is selected as a journal cover for ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces
"Surface-Engineered Paper Hanging Drop Chip for 3D Spheroid Culture and Analysis", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b08778 [Inside Front Cover]
Issac. J. Michael, Sumit Kumar, Jung Min Oh, Dongyoung Kim, Junyoung Kim, and Yoon-Kyoung Cho*
Taking advantage of the biofouling-resistant, hydrophobic, and fluid transport through
property, we demonstrated hanging drop three-dimensional (3D) spheroid culture and in-site analysis, including drug testing, time-dependent detection of secreted protein, and fluorescence staining without disturbing the spheroids.
Conferences
Jun 2018
10th international symposium of microchemistry and Microsystems (ISMM 2018)
10th international symposium of microchemistry and Microsystems (ISMM 2018) was successfully held in Busan 19-21, June.
Symposium chair was Prof. Yoon-Kyoung Cho.
We presented 1 oral (Issac) and 7 poster presentations(Dr. Dongyoung Kim, Jun Young, Yang-Seok, Chiju, Sunmin, Hyun-Kyoung and Chaeeun). It was a great time to discuss with speakers about interesting topics and serve participants
Paper accepted
Dec 2017
Invite review paper "Cell migration in microengineered tumor environments" is now published in Lab chip.
This review provides an overview of recent advances in microengineered cell migration platforms in the focus of the cell migration characteristics influenced by complex tumor microenvironment.
Conferences
Nov 2017
Prof. Yoon-Kyoung Cho will give Plenary, Keynote, and invited presentations in 2017 Conference
* Invited talk at Biochip Conference, Jeju, Korea, May 17-19
* Invited talk at Nobel Symposium on Microfluidics 2017, at Sånga-Säby conference center, Sweden, June 5-8
* Plenary talk at ISMM 2017 at Hobart, Australia, June 28-29
* Plenary talk at RSC-TIC 2017 at Tokyo, Japan, Sep 7-8
* Keynote presentation at Select Bio Liquid Biopsies and Minimally-Invasive Diagnostics 2017 at San Diego, USA, October 5-6
Paper accepted
May, 2017
Eavesdropping on autophagy-inducing crosstalk between single cancer cell and neighboring stroma cells
We could demonstrate real-time monitoring of autophagy induction in fibroblasts by single tumor cells. Retrieval of individual tumor cells from the microfluidic system and their subsequent genomic analysis was possible, allowing us to determine the nature of the factor mediating tumor-stroma interactions.
Media Highlights
May 07, 2017
Urine-based biomarkers for early cancer screening test
Professor Yoon-Kyoung Cho of Life Science, a group leader at IBS Research Center for Soft and Living Matter (CSLM) presented an integrated centrifugal microfluidic platform (Exodisc), a device that isolates extracellular vesicles (EVs) from urine.
The results of the study has been published in the February issue of ACS Nano journal.
In the study, the research team examined clinical samples by analyzing urinary EVs from bladder cancer patients, using a tabletop-sized centrifugal microfluidic system. As a result, fully automated enrichment of unirary EVs in the size range of 20 - 600 nm was achieved within 30 min Quantitative tests
전자신문 Feb 27, 2017, 조윤경 UNIST 교수팀, 소변에서 암진단에 필요한 물질 검출하는 기술 개발
Media Highlights
January, 2017
Detecting Early Onset of Metastatic Disease Using FAST Disc
A new research, affiliated with UNIST has been highlighted on the front cover of the January 2017 issue of the prestigious journal “Analytical Chemistry”. The key finding of this study is the development of a new technique that separates circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from whole blood at a liquid-liquid interface.
In this work, the authors report a technique to capture 95% of CTCs in the whole blood within one minute using a stand-alone lab-on-a-disc system equipped with Fluid Assisted Separation Technology (FAST). Clog-free, highly sensitive, selective, rapid, and label-free isolation of viable CTCs from whole blood without prior sample treatment is achieved.
동아사이언스 Jan. 25, 2017 ‘수술한 암, 혹시 전이 됐을까’… 혈액검사 한 번으로 확인한다
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