Professor Yang Hangwang of Seoul National University College of Medicine Selected for the 21st Boryeongam Academic Award

Professor Yang Hangwang, Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine.

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Gwan-joo] Boryung (formerly Boryung Pharmaceutical) and the Korea Cancer Research Foundation announced on the 24th that Professor Yang Han-kwang of the Department of Surgery at Seoul National University College of Medicine (Director of the Cancer Hospital at Seoul National University Hospital) has been selected as the recipient of the 21st Boryung Cancer Academic Award.

The award ceremony is scheduled to take place today at the Lee Kun-hee Hall in the Samsung Cancer Research Building at Seoul National University. Professor Yang will receive a plaque and a prize of 30 million KRW.

Professor Yang is a world-renowned authority in gastric cancer research. Since 1995, he has served as a professor in the Department of Surgery at Seoul National University College of Medicine, and since 2020, as the director of the Cancer Hospital at Seoul National University Hospital, dedicating himself to clinical and translational research in the field of gastric cancer treatment.

In the past three years, Professor Yang has published 55 papers in prestigious domestic and international academic journals. In 2011, at the Asian Society of Oncology (ASO), he was the first to demonstrate that proper ligation during lymph node dissection in gastric cancer surgery can prevent contamination by gastric cancer cells, scientifically providing evidence for appropriate surgical methods for gastric cancer.

Additionally, in 2016, he published the final results in the world-renowned oncology journal Lancet Oncology, showing that gastrectomy combined with chemotherapy in stage IV gastric cancer does not provide a survival benefit compared to chemotherapy alone, offering important academic evidence for treatment choices in stage IV gastric cancer patients.

Furthermore, by contributing to the activation of international collaborative research through multinational clinical trials with scientists worldwide and gaining recognition for his international leadership, he was elected as the next Secretary-General of the International Gastric Cancer Association (IGCA), the world's leading academic society in the field of gastric cancer, and is set to begin his term next year.

The Boryung Cancer Academic Award was jointly established in 2002 by the Korea Cancer Research Foundation and Boryung to honor scholars who have made significant contributions to cancer eradication and the improvement of public health each year.

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