News

2025

• September
  📍 We are now ready to set up for a solid-phase peptide synthesis system!
  📜 Yonghwan and Hyunwoo's very first manuscript, "Coordination Chemistry of Diabetes-Associated Islet Peptide Hormones," has been accepted for publication in the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 

• July
  👩‍🔬 Minkyung has joined our group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome to the team!
  📊 Yonghwan made his first poster presentation at the 2025 KCS Inorganic Chemistry Division Summer Symposium: "Distinctive Cu(II) Coordination of Somatostatin Isoforms and Its Functional Implications in Metal Ion Dyshomeostasis"

• June
  📊 Hyunwoo and Yonghwan presented a poster together at the 2025 Korea-Japan Joint Conference on Protein Science: "Intrinsic Biomolecular Modulators of Somatostatin Aggregation in Toxicity Pathways Underlying Metabolic Diseases"

• February
  🎓 Congratulations on your graduation, Yonghwan. Special congratulations on achieving summa cum laude honors from the College of Natural Sciences!
  📍 We have installed a gel documentation system.
  🏆 Jiyeon received the 2024 Outstanding Teaching Award (우수강의교수상): Inorganic Chemistry 1/2, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

• January
  👩‍🔬 Minji has joined our group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome to the team!

2024

• December
  👩‍🔬👩‍🔬 Yeoeun and Eunho have joined our group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome to the team!

• November
  📍 We have newly installed a microplate reader.
  🥼 We successfully hosted an open lab tour. Thank you to everyone who participated and showed interest in our research! 

• October
  🏆 Jiyeon received a POSCO Science Fellowship (포스코사이언스펠로) from POSCO TJ Park Foundation! Our project will span two years from January 2025 to December 2026: "Zn(II)-Induced Amyloidosis in the Pathogenesis of Diabetes" [Link]

• September
  👨‍🔬 WELCOME to Yonghwan. He starts a BS/MS combined program in the Han Lab!

• July
  📜 The review "NMR Spectroscopic Investigations of Transition Metal Complexes in Organometallic and Bioinorganic Chemistry" has been published in BKCS. Take a look at the Front Cover: [Link] 

• June
  📍 We have just installed a CD spectrometer!
  📊 Hyunwoo made his first poster presentation at the 2024 KCS Inorganic Chemistry Division Summer Symposium: "Rational Design of Chemical Tools to Regulate Aggregation Kinetics of Amyloidogenic Neurotransmitters"

• April
  💰 We are excited to announce that Han Lab has been selected for the Outstanding Young Scientist Grant by the National Research Foundation! Our project will span five years from April 2024 to March 2029: "Copper Biochemistry in Cuproptosis and Amyloidosis"

• March
  👨‍🔬 WELCOME to Hyunwoo, who has joined our group as the first MS student!
  📜 Check out the KCS highlight prepared by Yonghwan and Yurim: 화학세계 2024년 3월호
  👁️‍🗨️ Jiyeon has been recognized as one of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2023 outstanding reviewers: #RSCpeerreview

• ~ February
  🚧 Han Lab has successfully moved to the Natural Science Building! 

2023

• November
  📜 Our article "Coordination chemistry of mitochondrial copper metalloenzymes: Exploring implications for copper dyshomeostasis in cell death" has been published in BMB Reports.

• September
  📜 Our article "Copper trafficking system in cells: Insights into coordination chemistry and toxicity" has been published in Dalton Transactions!

• July
  👨‍🔬👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Yonghwan, Yurim, and Jinho have joined our group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome to the team!

• June
  💰 Our group has been selected for the Basic Research Grant Program by the National Research Foundation, which will span one year from June 2023 to May 2024: "Development of Redox-Based Chemical Tools to Quantify Intracellular Cu(I/II)"

• January
  👩‍🔬 Daeun has joined our group as the first undergraduate researcher. Welcome to the team!

2022.9~

• December
  🏆 Prof. Han received the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (우수학위논문상, 화학 분야 우수상) from the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (한국과학기술한림원) & S-Oil (에쓰-오일 과학문화재단)!
  🎥 Watch the Youtube video here: 내가 꿈꾸던 나를 만나다 (2022 서울시립대 홍보영상)

• November
  🏆 Prof. Han received the 2022 Future Talent Award (미래인재상) from the Korea Foundation for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (여성과총)! 

• October
  🏆 Prof. Han received the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (우수박사학위논문상) from the Korean Chemical Society (대한화학회)! 

• September
  👋🏻 Prof. Han has joined the Department of Applied Chemistry at the University of Seoul!