Prof. Yoon-Kyoung Cho shares the story about "3D Liver Chip" which was selected as a BRIC Top 5 Research Research Achievement Award.

https://www.ibric.org/myboard/read.php?Board=interview&id=2196

Under wonderful spring weather and beautiful cherry blossoms, we altogether took pictures! We also won 1st of the BME cherry blossom picture contest for teams!

Recently graduated alumni from FRUITS Lab share their story.

> Issac.J. Michael (Oxford Nanoimaging (ONI), Oxford, UK)
> Hyun-Kyung Woo (MGH and Harvard medical school, Boston, US)
> Minji Lim (LG Chem, Korea)
> Sun-Min Yu (IBS Center for Soft and Living Matter, Korea)
> Junyoung Kim ( Imperial College London, London, UK)

https://bme.unist.ac.kr/portfolio/who-are-we/

Prof. Yoon-Kyoung Cho is elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK) in recognition of microfluidic technology. She has received attention in May 2020 for developing a manual diagnostic device which can easily diagnose bacteria infection and antibiotic resistance.

We enjoyed our end-of-year party and Junyoung's farewell party through zoom! We enjoyed the party with quizzes, games and prizes!

Junyoung is heading to Imperial College of London for his post-doc training. May health and happiness always be with you!

Junyoung's paper, "Three-Dimensional Human Liver-Chip Emulating Premetastatic Niche Formation by Breast Cancer-Derived Extracellular Vesicles", published in ACS Nano was selected as BRIC Top 5 research achievements in 2020. Congratulations!!!

"Surface-Textured Mixed-Metal-Oxide Nanocrystals as Efficient Catalysts for ROS Production and Biofilm Eradication" Published online in 2020, in issue in 2021, Nano Letters.

Congratulations!!!

Nitee Kumari, Sumit Kumar, Mamata Karmacharya, Sateesh Dubbu, Taewan Kwon, Varsha Singh, Keun Hwa Chae, Amit Kumar*, Yoon-Kyoung Cho*, and In Su Lee*

Professor Cho gave a invited talk on "Lab-on-a-disc for Personalized Medicine" at IEEE EMBS Mini-Symposium on Micro & Nanotechnology in Medicine.

We are proud for Chaeeun, she won the best paper award from the fall meeting of Korean Biochip conference! Congratulations!

Junyoung's study on "Three-Dimensional Human Liver-Chip Emulating Pre-Metastatic Niche Formation by Breast Cancer-Derived Extracellular Vesicles" was selected as ACS Nano's cover image for November 2020, volume 14, issue 11, pages 14253-16162. Congratulations!!

We had a farewell party for Hyun-Kyoung. She is heading to Harvard University for her post-doc training. Wish you all the best!!

"Photoactive Antiviral Face Mask with Self-Sterilization and Reusability" Published online in 2020, in issue in 2021, Nano Letters.

Congratulations!!!

Sumit Kumar, Mamata Karmacharya, Shalik Ram Joshi, Oleksandra Gulenko, Juhee Park, Gun-Ho Kim, and Yoon-Kyoung Cho*

This year's MicroTAS was held online due to COVID19.
Yongjun, Mamata, Chaeeun, Jungmin and Jooyoung gave poster presentations through zoom.

"Detection of EGFR mutations using bronchial washing-derived extracellular vesicles in patients with non-small-cell lung carcinoma" Published in Cancers, 2020.

Congratulations!!!

Juhee Park, Chaeeun Lee, Jung Seop Eom, Mi-Hyun Kim *, Yoon-Kyoung Cho *

'Findget spinner for UTI detection' was introduced by a YouTuber, Yongdal!

"Adaptive Architecture and Mechanoresponse of Epithelial Cells on a Torus" Published in issue Biomaterials, 2021.

Congratulations!!!

Sun-Min Yu, Bo Li, François Amblard, Steve Granick, Yoon-Kyoung Cho*

"Three-Dimensional Human Liver-Chip Emulating Pre-Metastatic Niche Formation by Breast Cancer-Derived Extracellular Vesicles" Published in ACS Nano, 2020.

Congratulations!!! It was selected as cover

Junyoung Kim, Chaeeun Lee, Inun Kim, Jooyoung Ro, Jungmin Kim, Yoohong Min, Juhee Park, Vijaya Sunkara, Yang-Seok Park, Issac Michael, Young-Ae Kim, Hee Jin Lee, Yoon-Kyoung Cho*

"Boosted molecular mobility during common chemical reactions" Published in Science, 2020.

Congratulations!!!

Huan Wang, Myeonggon Park, Ruoyu Dong, Junyoung Kim, Yoon-Kyoung Cho, Tsvi Tlusty, Steve Granick*

"Mechanical Adaptations of Epithelial Cells on Various Protruded Convex Geometries" Published in Cells, 2020.

Congratulations!!!

Sun-Min Yu†, Bo Li†, Steve Granick and Yoon-Kyoung Cho*

"A fidget spinner for the point-of-care diagnosis of urinary tract infection." was published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2020

Congratulations!!

Research highlight: Nature Reviews Urology volume 17, page431(2020)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41585-020-0353-5

https://www.medgadget.com/2020/05/fidget-spinner-for-rapid-detection-of-urinary-tract-infections.html

"EV-Ident: Identifying tumor-specific extracellular vesicles by size fractionation and single-vesicle analysis" published in Anaytical Chemistry, 2020, Advanced article

Dongyoung Kim,# Hyun-Kyung Woo,# Chaeeun Lee, Yoohong Min, Sumit Kumar, Vijaya Sunkara, 4 Hwi-Gyeong Jo, Young Joo Lee, Jisun Kim, Hong Koo Ha, and Yoon-Kyoung Cho*

Congratulations!!