SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY: Prof. Chunkwan Park, Won the PHI BIOMED Rising Researcher Award

Prof. Chunkwan Park of Department of Biomedical Engineering received the “PHI BIOMED Rising Researcher Award” at the 2021 spring workshop, organized by the Korean Society for Biomaterials.



The Korean Society for Biomaterials was established in 1996 for the purpose of exchanging academic and technical information by more than 800 researchers and clinicians at university, public policy institutes and corporate research institutes. It is a well-known academic association on biological materials in Korea that leads cutting edge medical technologies such as drug delivery, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and stem cells.



The PHI BIOMED Rising Researcher Award is given to young researchers within 10 years of obtaining a doctorate degree among members who have excelled in biomedical development and research activities at home and abroad to encourage outstanding rising researchers and support them to have excellent achievements.



Since Prof. Park was appointed to Sungkyunkwan University in 2018, he Park has been developing technology to treat incurable diseases such as tumors and sepsis by applying bio-material-based drug delivery and immunotherapy technology. He is active as an academic committee and rising member of committee at the Korean Society for Biomaterials, the Korean BioChip Society, the Korean Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society, and Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research. Prof. Park has published 33 papers in the SCI journal over the past five years and is carrying out an outstanding rising research project of the Ministry of Science and ICT, support project of Basic Research Lab (BRL), and many other projects with various companies.