Pukyong National University

Kim Tae-Hee at PKNU received the Best Poster Presentation Award from the Korean Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society

- for research on anti-adhesion and suppression of inflammation after surgery

Kim Tae-Hee (Ph.D.) at the Department of Industry 4.0 Convergence Bionics Engineering of Pukyong National University (President Jang Young-Soo) won the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 22nd symposium of Korean Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society (President Im Gun-Il).

Kim received excellent evaluations by presenting her thesis 'Transplanting film based on decellularized porcine cartilage including Phlorotannin from Ecklonia cava extract prevents inflammatory' (Advisory Prof. Jeong Won-Kyo) at the recent online academic conference.

In this study, which was carried out with support from the National Research Foundation's Ph.D. Student Research Grant (Principal investigator- Kim Tae-Hee) and the National Research Foundation's Key Research Center Support Project (Principal investigator- Prof. Jeong Won-Kyo), Kim developed an anti-adhesion film to prevent peritoneal adhesions, which are likely to occur after peritoneotomy, and presented research results to suppress inflammation.

She produced an anti-adhesion film containing Phlorotannin from Ecklonia cava extract to mount a decellularization matrix and anti-inflammatory effect on porcine cartilage containing factors that prevent adhesions in the matrix and inhibit the formation of new blood vessels.

As a result of experiments using macrophages and animal models, it was shown that the film based on the decellularization of decellularized porcine cartilage including Phlorotannin from Ecklonia cava extract prevents adhesion to the graft after surgery and suppresses the inflammatory.

The Korean Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society is the only regenerative medicine-related society in Korea and is a multidisciplinary, convergence society where active researchers related to regenerative medicine, such as medicine, natural science, and engineering. <Pukyong Today>