Multiple Government-Supported Projects Selected by Applied Chemistry Students
- Graduate School Chemical Biology Department Seojeong Jeon, 'Pre-Startup Package'
- Graduate School Applied Chemistry Department Suyeon Eom, 'Women Graduate Engineering R
Jeon So-jeong, a second-year student in the Department of Chemical Biology at Dong-Eui University Graduate School.
[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] The Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Dong-Eui University has recently experienced a series of successes.
This is because news has been coming in one after another that several undergraduate and graduate students majoring in Applied Chemistry at this university have been selected for government-supported projects.
Jeon So-jeong, a second-year master's student in Chemical Biology who graduated from the Applied Chemistry major, and Eom Su-yeon, a first-year Applied Chemistry undergraduate, were selected for the ‘Preliminary Startup Package’ and the ‘Women Graduate Students Engineering Research Team Program,’ respectively. Senior Park So-hyun was selected for the ‘2020 Undergraduate Research Program.’
Jeon So-jeong was selected in May for the Preliminary Startup Package hosted by the Korea Institute of Startup & Entrepreneurship Development with the project titled ‘Development of Natural Skincare for Alleviating and Improving Facial Flushing.’ The Preliminary Startup Package is a program supporting the initial commercialization of young entrepreneurs with innovative ideas, which has been ongoing since 2018. This year, up to 1 billion KRW per person is supported for 1,700 prospective entrepreneurs.
Through this selection, Jeon said she plans to start with skincare products, proceed with prototype production, marketing, intellectual property rights, and patent applications, and eventually expand the business area to color cosmetics, base makeup, and body products.
Eom Su-yeon, a first-year student in the Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Dong-Eui University.
Eom Su-yeon was selected in April as part of the ‘Women Graduate Students Engineering Research Team Advanced Course’ hosted by the Korea Center for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology under the Ministry of Science and ICT, with the project titled ‘Development of Melanocyte with MITF Gene Mutation Induced by CRISPR-Cas9 System (a gene cutting and insertion technology).’
The Women Graduate Students Engineering Research Team Program is a program where female graduate students act as principal investigators and form teams with female middle and high school students to conduct engineering research projects for six months. This year, 62 teams were selected nationwide, and teams from Dong-Eui University and Dong-A University in Busan were chosen. Each team receives 7 million KRW in research funding.
Park So-hyun was selected in May for the ‘2020 Undergraduate Research Program Support Project’ hosted by the Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Creativity with the project titled ‘Knockout of Tyrosinase Gene (an enzyme that forms natural melanin in hair) using the CRISPR-Cas9 system.’ Professor Kim Moon-moo from the Applied Chemistry major is participating as the principal investigator in this research.
This year, 120 research projects were selected in three categories: science and technology, convergence science, and AI science, with 5.2 million KRW of research funding provided per project.
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