Professor of the Department of System Biology Park Bo-yon’s research, a joint project with MIT, has discovered the mechanisms of a new immune regulatory protein which recognizes and removes germs or viruses that have invaded in the human body. This research finding has been published in an online report volume of Immunity, a worldly-recognized journal in the field of Life Science and Immunology. According to Professor Park’s study, a protein in the body called Granulin effectively destroys infected cells by detecting and capturing the DNA derived from external germs or viruses and signaling the status of infection. This finding is anticipated to provide substantial advancement in the development of immune regulatory