KOREA UNIVERSITY SEJONG CAMPUS

Developing Biotechnology & Bioinformatics professionals
to lead the innovative future!The Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics

• Location
  Research and Business Cooperation Building No.301

• Tel
  044-860-1410

• Fax
  044-860-1598

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Introduction

Biotechnology & Bioinformatics provides the tools and information that make human life comfortable based on the understanding of life phenomena. Biotechnology & Bioinformatics is an advanced science that follows electronic engineering of the current century. It is valued as an innovative academic area to solve current problems related to environment, disease, energy and food. In Korea where there is a small amount of natural resources, development of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics is of great national interest. The government announced the Biotech Plan 2000 for Bioengineering Development, meaning that interest in this area has never been higher.

Biotechnology & Bioinformatics is a representative interdisciplinary area covering application and engineering based on basic studies of microbiology, biochemistry, biophysics, cell biology, molecular biology and computational biology. Being future-oriented, Biotechnology & Bioinformatics will contribute greatly to the future human race in the areas of environment, agriculture, health and energy.

The graduate course was designated as a government-run project in 1996. It was selected for the BK21 Project in 1999 by the Ministry of Education, followed by national funding for many years. Since 2013, it has been involved in the "Contagious Disease Response Team" under the BK 21 PLUS Project and received continuous funding. This enables the members to concentrate on research along with supporting equipment and human resources, while also leading their respective academic areas.

Required Student Skills and Qualities

1. Analytic thinking
Talented individuals who have the ability to determine what kind of technologies are needed and what kind of problems are demanded in the field of biotechnology through the use of rational approaches and systemic information and theory, and are capable of acquiring and analyzing expert knowledge and advanced theory in life sciences that is the basis of the field of bio health.

2. Convergent thinking
Talented individuals who can lead convergence between various fields of engineering with their overall ability in basic and applied biotechnology, and have the capability to converge various technologies for the development of practical technology that will be used in the field of bio health.

3. Creative thinking
Talented individuals who enjoy challenges and have an excellent outlook on developing new technology and creating intellectual property based on their expert knowledge of biotechnology, and have the ability to ascertain the trend of advanced technology in the field of bio health and create new biotech that will lead the future.

Education objective

- Training leaders in industry/research that can lead bio health industry through future-oriented/creative education

- Cultivating ability to utilize research ability and utilization ability in the industrial field by learning the basic and intensive major-related knowledge and advanced theories demanded in bio health industry

- Fostering value-creating human resources in new drug development, neoplastic material development, diagnosis and prevention of disease, and understanding and treatment of disease based on immunologic technique

Faculty

Career Paths after Graduation

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