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• Institute for Environmental Research
• Institute of Health Services Research
• Institute of Tropical Medicine
• Institute for Occupational Health
• Institute for Cancer Research
• The Institute of Logopedics and Phoniatrics
• Yonsei Cardiovascular Research Institute
• The Institute of Genetic Science
  • Introduction
• Institute of Gastroenterology
• The Institute of Chest Diseases
• Institute of Endocrinology
• Research Institute for Trasplantation
• Brain Research Institute
• Cutaneous Biology Research Institute
• The Institute of Kidney Disease
• Rehabilitation Institute of Muscular Disease
• The Institute of Vision Research
• Urological Science Institute
• Institute for Immunology and Immunological Disease
• Research Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine
• Institute of Allergy
• Research Institute of Radiological Science
• Institute for Human Tissue Restoration
• Research Institute of Bacterial Resistance
• Aids Research Institute
• Institute of Behavioral Sciences in Medicine
• Anesthesia and Pain Research Institute
• The Spine and Spinal Cord Institute
• The Airway Hucus Institute
• Arthroscopy & Joint Research Institute
• Corneal Dystrophy Research Institute
• Human Barrier Research Institute
• Institute for History of Medicine
• Medical Canvergence Research Institute
• Severance Institute for Vascular and Metaholic Research
• Epilepsy Research Institute

Introduction

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• Date of Establishrnent : April 28, 1992
• Director : Kyung Sup Kim, M.D.,Ph.D.
• Number of Researchers : 38
• Main Research Areas
  • Prenatal diagnosis of genetic diseases by a molecular biological method
  • Signal transduction studies in the yeast model
  • Expression of human blood coagulation factor Vlll in vitro
  • Development of insulin secreting cells and its application to the treatment of diabetes mellitus
  • Classification of acute Iymphocytic leukemia by molecular biological methods
  • Development of gene therapy methods
  • Study of the molecular mechanism of transactivation of promoters by transcription factors
  • Gene regulation in the developmental stage in the Drosophila model
  • Transplantation of hemopoietic stem cells