Yonsei Tech Fair

-Showcase for Outstanding R&D Projects and Successful Technology Exchanges

-Nobel Forum Held Same Day

On November 13, the Yonsei Tech Fair was held in the Grand Ballroom on the Sinchon Campus. Organized by Yonsei Technology Holdings and supported by the Office of Research Affairs, the fair exhibited outstanding research and development (R&D) projects as well as successful examples of technology exchange and university-industry partnership. Overall, the fair’s aim was to contribute to the enhancement of Yonsei’s technological research capacity, such that it achieves world-class standing.

In his remarks at the opening ceremony, current Yonsei President Jeong Kap-young said: “In order to become a leading prestigious university, Yonsei University should not only analyze possibilities for the commercialization of technology, but it should also support follow-up research for it.” In the exhibition for outstanding R&D projects, there were sixty-eight technology posters and thirty-three trial products on display; awards were given out for the best projects and trial products. Award winners then gave presentations on the commercialization of biotechnology and polymer technology, along with technology transfers, patents, and strategies for attracting investors.

18^th Nobel Forum

Earlier in the day, the eighteenth Yonsei Nobel Forum was held, featuring Victor Ambros from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Martin Chalfie of Columbia University. Professor Ambros, who discovered the first known microRNA (miRNA), gave a talk entitled “microRNA’s gene regulation function and its utilization as biomarker.” Professor Chalfie, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP), presented the paper “The synergy role of transcription factors in determination of cell fate of Caenorhabditis elegans’ neuronal differentiation.”   

Victor Ambros

Martin Chalfie