Pukyong National University

Four Ph.D. candidates at PKNU selected for the 'support project for academic future generations in science and engineering fields'.

- Lee Kyeong-Min · Lee Eun-Kyeong · Jo Doo-Min · Choi Ji-Soo ... carry out with 40 million research funding per person for 2 years

△ (From left) Lee Kyeong-Min, Lee Eun-Kyeong, Jo Doo-Min, Choi Ji-Soo

Pukyong National University (President Jang Young-Soo) announced that four students, including Lee Kyeong-Min (dept. of aquatic life medicine), Lee Eun-Kyeong (aquatic life medicine), Jo Doo-Min (food science & technology), Choi Ji-Soo (architectural engineering) who are in a doctoral program, have been selected for the 'support project for academic future generations in natural science and engineering fields'.

As a result of the project selection announced by the Ministry of education and the National research foundation of Korea on the 30th, they were selected in the 'Ph.D. student research grant' category and will receive a research grant of KRW 40 million per person for two years to carry out their research project from this month.

The purpose of this project is to provide research opportunities according to the growth stage to the next generation of academics so that they can grow as researchers, and to support Ph.D. candidates to lead and independently research creative and challenging ideas related to the subject of their thesis.

Accordingly, Lee Kyeong-Min is conducting research projects on 'A study on the establishment of an RNA vaccine platform for the prevention of viral diseases in aquatic organisms' and Lee Eun-Kyeong on 'Attenuation of fish pathogenic streptococci using CRISPR/Cas9 and its use as a live attenuated influenza vaccine' (advisory professor Kim Ki-Hong).

Next, Jo Doo-Min will carry out the task of 'Investigation of Myoglobin oxidation inhibition and mechanism of red fish meat using microbial metabolites' (advisory professor Kim Young-Mok), and Choi Ji-Soo, 'A study on the evaluation of indoor environment and energy performance according to the shape of the integrated radiant cooling and heating light shelf' (advisory professor Lee Kyu-Nam).

309 people were finally chosen over the 1,350 doctoral candidates from all over the country applied for research grants in this year's science and engineering field support project for the future generation academics. <Pukyong Today>