Cell Logistics Research Center to investigate principles

of how biomaterials are transported within cells

The Cell Logistics Research Center (Director Young-su Jeon) has opened at GIST to study principles of how biomaterials are transported within cells. The center will study the actual cell transportation process at the molecular level as well as the causes and modification techniques of various problems, such as cancers caused by defects and cardiovascular diseases.

About 100 guests from the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and Korea Research Foundation and others joined together at the Life science building on October 18, 2016, for the opening ceremony.

There will be a total of nine expert participants at the research center. They include seven professors from GIST Life Science Department and one from APRI and one from UNIST. The center will receive roughly 8.6 billion won for seven years.

“We will contribute to the strengthening of national capacities with new theory formation and by solving scientific challenges,” said Director Young-su Jeon.