Professor Jang Won-je, Department of Bio-pharmaceutical Engineering at Dong-Eui University, Selected as 'Hanbitsa' by BRIC

Professor Jang Won-je, majoring in Bio-pharmaceutical Engineering at Dong-Eui University, was selected for the ‘Hanbit-sa’ (People Who Illuminate Korea) by the Biological Research Information Center (BRIC).

Professor Jang recently published, as the first author, a paper titled “Encapsulation of probiotics with poly-γ-glutamic acid alters gut microbiota and short-chain fatty acid content by maintaining cell viability in the gastrointestinal tract” in the international food science journal Food Hydrocolloids.

In the paper, Professor Jang demonstrated that encapsulating probiotics with poly-γ-glutamic acid increases the survival rate of probiotics in the gastrointestinal tract and positively changes the gut microbiota and short-chain fatty acid content, which are beneficial components in the gut.

Professor Jang Won-je, Department of Bio-pharmaceutical Engineering, Dong-Eui University.

This study was conducted jointly with Professor Lee Jong-min’s laboratory in the Department of Biotechnology at Pukyong National University, supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea and equipment support from Dong-Eui University’s Core Research Support Center for Biomaterial Regeneration. Professor Jang Won-je was selected for BRIC’s Hanbit-sa with this paper.

BRIC’s Hanbit-sa selects and introduces papers by Korean scientists published in the top 3% of life sciences or in international journals with a citation index of 10 or higher.

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