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Most Number of Paper Award - EMMYoon-Keun KimDepartment of Life Science, Pohang University of Science and TechnologyAwardsYoon-Keun Kim (MD, PhD) graduated in Medicine from Seoul National University in1987. After training in residency at the Seoul National University Hospital and militaryservice, he had researched and published several excellent articles about spider miteincluding citrus red mite, which is very important allergen in Korea causing allergic rhinitisand asthma, for the first time in the world. He had got the extinguishing award with thisresearch work from Seoul National University Alumni in 1999. And since then he did hisresearch in the Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Seoul National UniversityCollege of Medicine as an assistant professor.He came to the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at Yale University as a visitingassistant professor in 2002. With Dr. Jack A. Elias who is outstanding worldwideresearcher in the field of allergy and respiratory medicine, he had done several researchprojects on the pathogenesis of asthma using mouse models for two years, and theypublished the epoch-making articles in the journal ‘Science’ and ‘Nature Medicine’.Coming back to Korea, he has actively working about the interesting and very importantmechanisms in the pathogenesis of asthma, “new paradigm in the immunopathogenesis ofasthma”. He demonstrated that non-eosinophilic asthma is induced by both Th1 and Th17immune responses, whereas eosinophilic asthma by Th2 immune response.Moving his position to the Department of Life Science, POSTECH, he has performed theresearch with enthusiasm and extended his interests to the pathophysiology of immunebasedinflammatory diseases and translational research covering cutaneous,gastrointestinal, and cardiovascular diseases in addition to the respiratory diseases.Especially, his recent research outcomes regarding extracellular vesicles are highly creativeand practical in the context of developments of biomarkers, preventive devices, andtherapeutics for the management of diverse diseases. These have its novelty in the fields,and this is reflected on his recent patent submissions. His two recent publications thatextracellular vesicles from Staphylococcus aureus induce atopic dermatitis and thatextracellular vesicles from intestinal commensal bacteria induce systemic inflammation,provide new paradigm of pathogenesis of immune-based inflammatory diseases withunknown etiology.Regardless of his publications, his research outcomes have the very high potential to beapplied in the management of immune-based inflammatory diseases. These comingoutcomes will benefit enormously to the progress of the science and contribute to thehuman health, and even to the economy in this country.2011년도 생화학분자생물학회 연례국제학술대회31