Groundbreaking Ceremony for Y-IBS Hall

 

-Will Be Hub of Nanomedicine and Interdisciplinary Research

 

 

On September 9, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Yonsei-IBS Institute (Y-IBS) took place on the Sinchon Campus. Once completed, Y-IBS Hall will embody a “Center without Barriers,” housing the Center for Nanomedicine and serving as a hub for creative and collaborative interdisciplinary research. The building will be situated between the Science Research Center and the Advanced Science and Technology Center. It will be four stories tall and have one underground level, with a total area of around 4,300 m2. Y-IBS Hall is scheduled for completion in 2017.

 

At the groundbreaking ceremony, Yonsei President Yong-Hak Kim said: “Y-IBS Hall will be the optimal hub for IBS and interdisciplinary research in the fields of nanoscience and biomedical science. It will serve as an exemplary example of providing a liberal research environment that encourages a creative research culture.”

 

 

The Center for Nanomedicine investigates new possibilities in medicine by conducting interdisciplinary research on nanomaterials and nanomedicine. In its efforts to create new paradigms in medicine, the center is developing the “Precision Nano-Imaging” platform, which is intended to more precisely diagnose and treat illnesses using nanoscience.

 

The center also undertakes collaborative research projects with elite institutions from around the world. At present, its partners include Harvard Medical School, University of California, Los Angeles, UC Berkeley, and Germany’s Max Plank Institute. Among the top international scholars with whom the center works are Randy Schekman, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and Ralph Weissleder, Director of the Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital.