News

Dec 2023

• Prof. Lee receives the 2023 KSPST Academic Development Award!

Nov 2023

• Prof. Lee gave an invited talk at the 2023 Korean Tissue Engineering and Regeneration Medicine Society (Seoul, Korea). "Title: Nanomedicines for the treatment of diseases (gastrointestinal diseases)"

Oct 2023

• Bom Lee wins the 3rd presentation award at the 2023 Fall International Convention of The Pharmaceutical Society of Korea.

• Jongyoon Shinn gave her talk on HABN liver fibrosis work at the 2023 Fall International Convention of The Pharmaceutical Society of Korea, obtaining the Oral Presentation award.

• Prof. Lee delivered our lab's work at Sungkyunkwan University. "Title: Hyaluronic acid-bilirubin nanomedicine for anti-inflammation and anti-cancer therapy"

Sep 2023

• Bom Lee presented her talk about our research conducted during the period of Advanced Pharmacy Practice and Research at the Ewha COP research forum for undergraduate students, earning her the Oral Presentation award. 

• Jongyoon Shinn wins the 2nd poster award during the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Biomaterials.   

Aug 2023

• Prof. Lee and Jongyoon Shinn's paper on Hyaluronic acid-bilirubin nanomedicine-based combination chemoimmunotherapy was published in Nature Communications (IF 17.694). Congrats! [News 1, News 2]

July 2023

• The Lee lab has received a 1 billion won grant (보건의료기술개발사업, 4 years, KHIDI) to develop new approaches for precision IBD microbiome editing! [Link]

• Jiwoo Lee, Bom Lee, and Yejun Byun are joining us for the summer. Welcome!

May 2023

• Prof. Lee delivered an oral presentation on our lab member's work at the Invitational Symposium for Pusan National University College of Pharmacy Alumni in Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of Foundation (Busan, Korea). "Title: Hyaluronic acid-bilirubin nanomedicine for biomedical applications"

Apr 2023

• Prof. Lee presented our student's work at the 2023 Spring International Convention of The Pharmaceutical Society of Korea (Gyeongju, Korea). : "Title: Hyaluronic acid-bilirubin nanomedicine for biomedical applications"

• Prof. Lee gave an invited talk at the 2023 Annual Meeting of Korean Association of Immunologists (Gwangju, Korea). "Title: Hyaluronic acid-bilirubin nanomedicine for anti-inflammation and anti-cancer therapy"

• The Lee lab has received a 0.3 billion won grant (공동연구활성화지원사업, 3 years, NFEC) to develop tumor microenvironment-responsive nanomedicine for targeted cancer therapy

Mar 2023

• Jihyun Lee is dedicated to advancing her work in Honors Research this spring.

• Prof. Lee delivered an oral presentation on our lab member's work at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Biomaterials (Pangyo, Korea). "Title: Hyaluronic acid-bilirubin nanomedicine for biomedical applications"

Feb 2023

• Nayoon Park (M.S. course) and Yu Jeong Kim (Ph.D. course) joined our lab. Welcome!

• Prof. Lee is promoted to associate professor!

Jan 2023

• Jihyun Lee is joining us for the winter. Welcome!

Dec 2022

• Jongyoon Shinn wins the 1st poster award during the 2022 Annual Meeting and International Conference of the KSPST.  

Oct 2022

• Yujin Kim joined our lab. Welcome!

• Hyojin Kim and Chaerin Lee receive the 2nd place poster presentation award in the Ewha COP research forum.

Sep 2022

• Jongyoon Shinn, Seon Ah Lee, and Sunju Lee publish their review article in Pharmaceutics. Congrats!

• Sunju Lee and Jongyoon Shinn win the 1st poster award during the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Biomaterials.  Jongyoon Shinn also gave an oral talk during the meeting.  [Link] 

• Prof. Lee delivered an oral presentation on our lab member's work at the Controlled Release Society IC webinars. 

July 2022

• Sujin Kim, Hyojin Kim, Jungseo Kim, Chae Rin Lee joined our lab for Advanced Research Pharmacy Practice. Welcome!. 

June 2022

• Ah Hyun Choi joined our lab. Welcome!.

May 2022

• Prof. Lee gave an invited talk at the Korean Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases 2022 (Busan, Korea). "Title: Current Strategies and Potential Prospects of Nanomedicine-mediated Therapy"

• The Lee lab has received a 0.5 billion won grant (미래기술연구실, 5 years, NRF) to develop new approaches for cancer immunotherapy.

Apr 2022

• Jongyoon Shinn and Nuri Kwon et al. published a review paper during the undergraduate period in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation. **Featured by Ewha COP news [Link].

Mar 2022

• Jongyoon Shin joined our lab as an integrated M.S./Ph.D student, welcome!

Feb 2022

• Jongyoon Shin is awarded a Best EWHA Woman pre-doctoral fellowship. Congrats![Link]

• Jiyoon Kim is joining us for the winter. Welcome!

• The Lee lab has received a 0.5 billion won grant (우수신진, 3 years, NRF) to develop new approaches for precision IBD microbiome editing!

Dec 2021

• Prof. Lee gave an invited talk in the "Immunotherapy and Drug Delivery" session during the UKC symposium held by  Korean-American Scientist and Engineers Association (KSEA) (LA, California)  [Link] 

Nov 2021

• Jongyoon Shinn and Nuri Kwon win the 1st place (best) presentation award in the Ewha COP research forum. Jusong Lee and Jiwoo Song receive the 2nd place and 3rd place presentation awards in the Ewha COP research forum, respectively. **Featured by Ewha COP news [Link].

• Congrats everyone!

Oct 2021

• Prof. Lee's review paper on oral nanomedicine for modulating immunity, intestinal barrier functions, and gut microbiome was published in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. [Link]

• Prof. Lee presented an invited talk at The Korea Institute of Ocean and Technology. 

• Jongyoon Shinn and Nuri Kwon presented their talks about our research performed during the period of Advanced Pharmacy Practice and Research in the Ewha COP research forum for undergraduate students. [Link]

• Prof. Lee presented an invited talk at the annual meeting and international symposium of The Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology. 

Sep 2021

• Prof. Lee participated in a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Korean Society of Biomaterials (Jeju Island). 

Aug  2021

• Seon Ah Lee presented our work during Ewha COP Outcome Research Workshop (ORW) [Link]. 

July 2021

• Jongyoon Shinn, Jusong Lee, Jiwoo Song, Nuri Kwon, and Seoyeon Kim joined our lab for the summer. Welcome!. 

June 2021

• Prof. Lee presented an invited talk at the annual meeting of Korean Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society.

Apr 2021

• Prof. Lee presented an invited talk at the Department of Pharmacy at Sungkyunkwan University. 

• Prof. Lee gave an invited talk at the Boryung Pharmaceutical Co. 

Mar 2021

• Prof. Lee serves as a topic editor in the special issue "Drug Delivery Systems for Oral Immunotherapy" of Pharmaceutics. [Link]

• Prof. Lee participated in a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Korean society of biomaterials. 

• Hongju Lee is joining us as an Honors Research student. Welcome.

Feb 2021

• Hani Choi joined our lab. Welcome!

• A review paper written by Jongyoon Shinn et al. during the undergraduate period was published in Archives of Pharmacal Research. **Featured by Ewha COP news [Link], KPAnews [Link]

Jan 2021

• Prof. Lee joined ChemMedChem's Inaugural Early-Carrer Advisory Board (ECAB). [Link]

• Seon Ah Lee and Seonju Lee joined our lab. Welcome!

• Minsu Ji, Yunjung Jung, Jungah Lee, and Minji Kim are joining us for the winter. Welcome. 

Nov 2020

• Prof. Lee joined the Editorial Board of Pharmaceutics as a topic editor.  

• Prof. Lee gave an invited talk at 2020 International Conference of Korean Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology.  

• Prof. Lee presented at Pharmaceutical Science Seminar (Chungbuk National University).  "Title: Hyaluronic acid-bilirubin Nanomedicine for Anti-colitis Therapy"

Oct 2020

• Sungyoung Lee receives the best oral presentation award in the Ewha COP research forum for undergraduate students.

• Hyon Kyong Lee wins the 1st place (best) presentation award in the Ewha COP research forum for undergraduate students.

• Congrats everyone! [Link] [Link]

• Prof. Lee's paper on a prodrug to improve the PK and therapeutic properties of Celecoxib was published in Pharmaceutics. 

Sep 2020

• Prof. Lee co-authored a paper on Graphene Oxide Nanosheets-based Cancer Vaccines in ACS Nano. 

Aug 2020

• Prof. Lee presented at Outcome Research Workshops (ORW).  "Title: Nano-biomedicine platform for anti-cancer and anti-inflammation therapy"  

July 2020

• Jongyoon Shinn, Hyon Kyong Lee, Jaeeun Ahn, and Sunyoung Lee joined our lab.  Welcome!.

Apr 2020

• Prof. Lee presented at Pharmaceutical Science Seminar (Ewha Womans University). "Title: Hyaluronic acid-bilirubin Nanomedicine for Targeted-Modulation of Dysregulated Intestinal Barrier, Microbiome, and Immune Responses in Colitis"

March 2020

• Dr. Lee joined the College of Pharmacy, Ewha Womans University as an assistant professor.

• Lee Laboratory working on Targeted Biomedicine and Nanomedicine was founded at Ewha Womans University.