Development of thermosensitive nanoparticles that reduce the side effects of medications
It is extraordinary that an undergraduate student carried out the majority of the research as the lead author of a publication of a SCI-listed journal.
The publication of an undergraduate student’s research paper in a SCI-listed international journal is now the talk of the town. The heroine is Ms. Sooyeon Lee, an undergraduate student studying at the Department of Dentistry. Ms. Lee’s research paper was recently reported in the online edition of ‘RCS Advances(IF3.7)’, a SCI-listed international journal issued by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Ms. Lee identified the logical possibility of thermosensitive nanoparticles that specifically react to cancer cells and release medications to them, based on the idea that the temperature of cancer cells is higher than body temperature.
According to the paper, when medications and genes are injected into thermosensitive nanoparticles, the nanoparticles react to cancer cells that have higher temperature than body heat, and destroy cancer cells while minimizing normal tissue damages.
“As a result of continued efforts and the guidance from professors at the laboratory, I could manage to conduct the complicated experiments and complete the paper. Particularly, my analysis ability has significantly improved,” Ms. Lee said.