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Department of Biomedical Science & Engineering
DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGDEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
- Homepage : https://bmseeng.gist.ac.kr/
- E-mail : bmse@gist.ac.kr
- Tel : 062)715-5312 / Fax : 062)715-5309
As a unique multidisciplinary research and education program, the Department of Medical System Engineering (DMES) was established in Spring 2008, with the mission of promoting fusion research in medical systems applications.
All faculty members of DMSE are recognized as World-class researchers in their area of focus. Ongoing research topics include medical system for early cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, robotics, neural engineering, drug delivery system, and more. DMSE invites extremely energetic candidates who are seeking advanced degrees (MS, PhD), or MD PhD interested in multidisciplinary biomedical science and engineering.
Specifically, candidates with medical degrees and those with engineering or science background are encouraged to apply.
With world-class faculty members and collaborations with physicians in affiliated hospitals, we provide DMSE students top-class educational opportunities, enabling them to become future professors, physician scientists, biomedical researchers, or CEOs/CTO in medical fields and clinics.
Major Research Areas
- 3D tissue cytometry and 3D imaging algorithm development
- Multi-modal imaging system development
- Diagnostic instrument development
- Molecular, cellular, and tissue-organ scale funtional imaging systems
- Multifunctional optical imaging system development (Raman, fluorescence, hyperspectral, OCT)
- Application of optical spectroscopy/imaging system to biological/medical problems such as prediction of cancer treatment outcome, brain function, skin cosmetics, and critical care
- Development of wearable microdevices for biomedical applications and ubiquitous health care
- Micro/nano sensors & actuators for medical devices
- Micro optics for endoscopy
- Medical ultrasonics
- Biological or medical microelectromechanical systems (BioMEMS/BioNEMS)
- Microfluidic-based total analysis platform
- Short-range Microwave Sensing
- Ultra-wideband Radar Image Processing & Antenna Design
- Photodynamic therapy for cancer using chlorin-based photosensitizers
- Anti-cancer chemotherapy targeting kinases
- Pain-killers and anti-inflammatory drugs targeting purine receptors
- Diagnostic tool development for early cancer detection
- Molecular dynamics imaging to investigate protein function & mechanism
- Cellular dynamics sensing and imaging for cell-cell communication
- Study of physiological biomarkers affecting cortical stimulation-induced brain plasticity
- Patternization of cortical stimulation to assist recovery from disabilities from chronic neurological disorders
- Development of clinical practice program for implantable microstimulation device using finite brain model
- Intradiscal sonography and pain-relieving devices for discogenic pain
- Neural prosthetics, including microelectrodes for neural signal recording and stimulation
- Power supply and short-range data transmission for biomedical microdevices
- Modeling and simulation of integrated micro systems that interact with biological tissue
- Brain imaging/mapping study
- Biomedical signal processing
- Medical instrumentation and healthcare monitoring
- Optical and optogenetic neuromodulation