Professors at Hwasun Chonnam National University Hospital Receive Consecutive Awards at Academic Conference

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Gwan-woo] Professors of the Department of Internal Medicine at Hwasun Chonnam National University Hospital have consecutively received awards at domestic and international academic conferences.

According to Hwasun Chonnam National University Hospital on the 22nd, Professor Hong Aram of the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism recently received the ‘EnM (Endocrinology and Metabolism) Academic Award’ at the international academic conference of the Korean Endocrine Society, jointly held online with the Asia-Oceania Endocrine Society.

This is Professor Hong’s second award following 2016, demonstrating her passionate research capabilities. EnM is an international academic journal of the Korean Endocrine Society registered in SCIE.

Professor Hong received the award for her paper titled ‘Effects of Mechanical Unloading on the Transition of Mature Osteoblasts to Inner Layer Cells In Vivo in Rats and Gene Expression Based on RNA-Sequencing.’ This paper elucidated the mechanism of osteoporosis development through animal experiments and was highly evaluated for its clinical significance.

Professor Bae Woo-kyun and former clinical fellow Bang Hyun-jin (Department of Oncology) at Hwasun Chonnam National University Hospital recently received the ‘Best Poster Award’ at the 71st Autumn Academic Conference of the Korean Society of Internal Medicine. They were honored for their research titled ‘Analysis of the Role of the EZH2 Gene in Liver Cancer through RNA Gene Analysis.’

This study investigated why prognosis worsens as EZH2 expression increases in liver cancer patients using next-generation sequencing analysis.

Although many studies have been conducted on the prognosis of the EZH2 gene, which is well known as an epigenetic regulator, there was little known about its role in liver cancer.

This study was highly evaluated for analyzing the role of epigenetic regulators in liver cancer and suggesting the possibility of their use in treatment.

In cancer genetics, ‘epigenetics’ refers to the regulation of gene expression rather than gene mutation, and it is a field that studies cancer development through oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes.

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