Professor Jeong Hoseok of Hwasun Chonnam National University Hospital Awarded Best Paper by the Korean Urological Association

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Yoon Jamin] Professor Ho-seok Jeong of the Department of Urology at Hwasun Jeonnam National University Hospital recently announced on the 22nd that he received the Best Basic Research Paper Award at the ‘73rd Annual Meeting of the Korean Urological Association.’

The Korean Urological Association awards academic prizes by dividing the most outstanding papers published in the past year in the official SCIE-registered journal ‘Investigative and Clinical Urology’ into basic and clinical categories.

The paper for which Professor Jeong received the award is a study related to ‘Regulation of Submucosal Epithelial Progenitor Cells in the Vagina by Estrogen’ (corresponding author Professor Kwang-sung Park, Department of Urology), which demonstrated that vaginal submucosal epithelial progenitor cells play an important role in the regeneration of the vaginal mucosa.

Previously, at the ‘28th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society of Endourology and Robotics,’ he also won the Best Oral Presentation Award for the topic ‘Simultaneous Bilateral Partial Adrenalectomy in Patients with Adrenal Tumors.’

Professor Jeong is also dedicated to basic and clinical research, with projects such as the one selected by the National Research Foundation of Korea titled ‘Localization and Existence Verification of Endothelial Progenitor Cells and Perivascular Cells in the Penile Corpus Cavernosum and Expression Changes in the Castrated Rat Model.’

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