Professor Noo Li Jeon’s Multiscale Biomedical Engineering Laboratory has been newly selected for the 2021 Research Leader Program of National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). They will receive an annual research funding of 800 million won for a maximum of 9 years (total funding: 7 billion won), starting June 1st, 2021 from NRF. The lab will conduct research tumor-immunity cycle chips for cancer treatment clinical trials.

Prof. Jeon’s team has been a leader in microfluidics-based organ-on-a-chip research. They have been conducting research the design and manufacturing of the organ-on-a-chip and various tissue models. Financed by the Mid-Career Researcher program for 6 years at a total of 2 stages, they developed an eye-on-a-chip and created a model for eye diseases. The team plans to develop a tumor-immunity cycle a chip and conduct high-throughput screening, improving the efficiency of cancer immunotherapy as well as further suggesting a new paradigm of cancer treatment research.