- Selected For a Program That Fosters the Growth of Talented Young Researchers Through Support For Creative and Challenging Research Initiatives -

- Selected to Receive a Total of 1.375 Billion Won in Research Funding For the Project Titled 'Breath-Powered Human Interface Sensing System Lab‘ -

From left to right: Prof. Jong-min Oh, Prof. Sang-mo Koo, and Prof. Min-kyung Kim from Kwangwoon University, and Prof. Sung-hoon Kim from Dong-eui University

Professor Jong-min Oh's team from the Department of Electronic Materials Engineering at Kwangwoon University, along with teams led by Professors Sang-mo Koo and Min-kyung Kim, and Professor Sung-hoon Kim from Dong-eui University's Department of Applied Chemistry, has been selected for the pioneering field project of the Global Research Laboratory Support Program (Basic Research Laboratory, hereafter BRL), a highly competitive group research project.

The BRL program, supported by the Ministry of Science and ICT and managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea, is a project that supports small-scale basic research groups focused on specific research topics to strengthen the nation's basic research capabilities. Among these, the pioneering field project supports the growth of talented young researchers by funding creative and challenging research in areas that have been rarely explored in Korea.

As a result of being selected for the BRL project, Professor Jong-min Oh's research team will receive a total of 1.375 billion won in research funding from August this year until April 2027 for their project, 'Breath-Powered Human Interface Sensing System Laboratory.'

The BRL collaborative research team will develop a compact, eco-friendly human interface system that can be attached to the body, continuously generating power from the moisture in breath to wirelessly detect disease-related information, such as biorhythms and pneumonia, and will conduct international collaborative research on materials, processes, elements, and systems with research institutes in France and Sweden.