In the era of the 4th industrial revolution, the era of convergence and consilience, brain science can be said to be a convergence study that is connected with medicine, engineering, physics, and psychology, and is one of the disciplines that require much research and development in the future. In that sense, this meeting between Dr. Janghee Cho and Nobel Sciences, who is known as the scientist closest to the Nobel Prize as a Korean, is significant.
Dr. Cho created the 'world's first' ultra-high-resolution brain map and cranial nerve map of a living person using the brain imaging device he has created.

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Agilent Technologies has established a new center for neurometabolomics research and training in the city of Daegu, South Korea. The center will serve as the base for the company's collaboration with the department of brain science at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology.

We report the implantation of patient-derived midbrain dopaminergic progenitor cells, differentiated in vitro from autologous induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), in a patient with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease. The patient-specific progenitor cells were produced under Good Manufacturing Practice conditions and characterized as having the phenotypic properties of substantia nigra pars compacta neurons; testing in a humanized mouse model (involving peripheral-blood mononuclear cells) indicated an absence of immunogenicity to these cells. The cells were implanted into the putamen (left hemisphere followed by right hemisphere, 6 months apart) of a patient with Parkinson’s disease, without the need for immunosuppression. Positron-emission tomography with the use of fluorine-18-L-dihydroxyphenylalanine suggested graft survival. Clinical measures of symptoms of Parkinson’s disease after surgery stabilized or improved at 18 to 24 months after implantation. (Funded by the National Institutes of Health and others.)

Kim Y, Suh YL, Kim SJ, Bae MH, Kim JB, Kim Y, Choi KC, Huh GY, Kim EJ, Lee JS, Kang HW, Shim SM, Lim HJ, Koh YH, Kim BC, Lee KH, Lee MC, Lee HW, Lim TS, Seeley WW, Kim HJ, Na DL, Lee KH, Seo SW. The Brain Donation Program in South Korea. Yonsei Med J. 2018 Dec;59(10):1197-1204. doi: 10.3349/ymj.2018.59.10.1197. PMID: 30450854; PMCID: PMC6240560.

Kyung-Jin Kim Chair Professor Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST)

December 01, 2013

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