Objectives

• Develop convergence-type radiation diagnostic and treatment technologies for efficient radiotherapy
• Activate use of internal and external irradiation facilities
• Spread non-clinical radiation experiment infrastructure
• Promote cooperation for radiation-based research projects, optimize medical and biological research cooperation

Research Areas

• Study on radiological diagnosis and treatment convergence using biological and polymer materials
• Study on the development and convergence of radiotherapy drug delivery system
• Study on disease treatment using functional peptide-based nano biological materials
• Study on the convergence of radiation regenerative medicine
• Development of drug assessment technology to replace animal testing
• Development of irradiation system for small animals and irradiation technologies customized to diseases
• Development of non-clinical radiation animal models and disease models
• Domestic and international cooperative researches on irradiation technologies using disease animal models
• Radiation-based business cooperation and medical and biological research cooperation

Research Outcomes

• Development of cancer-targeted radiotherapy model based on amino acid deficiency (Cell Death Dis, 2021)
• Development of 3D gelatin scaffold applicable to soft tissue regeneration (Int J Mol Sci, 2021)
• Development of nano-drug delivery system mounted with radiation cancer target (Nanomedicine: Nanotech Biol Medicine, 2020)
• Development of hafnium nano particle with particle size adjusted through the addition of polysaccharides
  (Republic of Korea Patent Application No. 21-157104, Nov. 15, 2021)