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- In the near future, Korea is estimated to have the highest rate of population aging in the world which will lead to exploding healthcare costs for the elderly.
- Recently, the increase in health care expenditures in Korea is more than twice the OECD average and is expected to be a tremendous burden on the national health care system.
- Age-related metabolic diseases and degenerative diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes are diseases that are found frequently in elderly populations.
- Due to the difficulty of completely curing chronic diseases such as degenerative and metabolic diseases, natural medicines that are effective at preventing and managing such diseases are increasing rapidly in the market.
- The growth rate of the natural medicine market is estimated to increase by more than 500% every year for the next 10 years and is drawing attention as a future growth engine.
- Recently, Korean pharmaceutical companies are focusing on their research and development capacity for developing natural medicines for the global market. In order to support this, an internationally competitive professional research staff must be developed.
- For natural medicines derived from traditional methods of evaluating effectiveness, it is necessary to develop evidence-based medicine based on accurate target identification research; and to highlight the clinical value of a drug through translational research.
- Therefore, it is required to foster creative talents with interdisciplinary education who can integrate the characteristics of natural materials that are multi-component-multi-functional paradigm, with medicine development.
- In the interest of managing chronic diseases in an aging society, our business unit fosters creative talent that can intermediate world-class natural medicine research power that the business unit has acquired to develop global natural medicine.
- Through interdisciplinary convergence research, establishing a standardized research system for natural medicine from basic research to natural medicine development
- The development of a new global natural medicine with natural materials that were discovered by existing business through the convergence of translational research
- To foster personnel who can develop natural medicine to prepare for an aging society, the existing College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences/ Department of Oriental Pharmacy, College of Natural Sciences, Department of Biology/ Chemistry department, College of Dentistry, the department of dentistry, College of Medicine, Department of Age-Related & Brain Disorders, College of the Environment and Applied Chemistry, Department of Advanced Polymer and Fiber Materials consolidated to establish a fused education department in 2006 that successfully operates to this day.
- In order to develop new natural medical material to counter aging populations, this business group has been strengthening its expertise in various fields such as new medicine material,
molecular biology and nanotechnology postgraduate track courses.
- Strengthening the convergence of education by having personnel complete cross-training courses between each track major convergence.
- Intensifying the curriculum for developing human resources by involving domestic and international translational research and systematic biology professionals to develop global natural medicine.
- Strengthening training programs to foster field problem-solving global talent based on the industry-academic cooperation infrastructure accumulated through current business unit operations such as joint research with domestic and international pharmaceutical companies, technology transfer, internships and field visits.
- Installs and supports the integrated field to develop an internationally recognized creative natural medicine material convergence
- Introduced differentiated incentives and enacted an evaluation system as an internal regulation in order to increase the competitiveness of faculty participation
- Formed research groups of participating professors in each field to implement professors’ research to have interdisciplinary convergence
- Secured a number of Korean research projects and industrial research projects through state-of-the-art facilities (such as AAALAC certified animal holding rooms) and Cooperative Research Infrastructure Configuration
- Excellent at obtaining contracts for research funding, for example, signed a contract for government grants and industry funding in 2012 for professors in the Department of Life and Nanopharmaceutical Sciences each 3.97 billion KRW (210 million KRW per person) and 1 billion KRW respectively
- Outstanding research capabilities of faculty members, with 124 published SCI grade research papers (6.526 per person) and an IF sum of 382.7 points (20.14 per person) in 2012 from professors in the Department of Life and Nanopharmaceutical Sciences
- According to Natural Ingredient New Drug R&D Trends report published by Biotech Policy Research Center in 2012, Kyunghee University released the most research papers related to natural medicine research and development
- According to the international academic journal analysis of the five year per academic sector by JoongAng Ilbo in 2010, it was ranked 82nd in the Pharmacology and Toxicology fields in the world, which shows its global research capacity to evaluate the efficacy of natural medicines
- Fostering health care technology related problem-solving human resources
- Producing practical talent that are required in the field
- Producing talent that can create future business through the convergence of interdisciplinary education
- Leading the global standard that mediates natural medicine development with world-class natural product related research power
- Presenting the future direction of relevant academics and industry through creative convergence research
- Reducing health care costs through medicine development that can manage age-related diseases effectively
- Healthy aging and quality of life improvement
- Producing creative talent to generate future Korean business
- Discovering a new target and developing assessment technology specialized in natural medicines
- Development of leading technology in the natural medicine market
- Establishing a database of integrated natural materials for natural medicine development
- Securing a new growth engine for high-value job creation
