KAIST

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Vol.32.2025.10.31

KAIST Exports Global License for New Drug Candidate for Intractable Epilepsy Worth 750 Billion KRW​ KAIST (President Kwang Hyung Lee) announced on the 9th of October that Sovargen (co-led by CEOs Cheolwon Park and Jeong Ho Lee), a faculty startup led by Professor Jeong Ho Lee of the KAIST Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, has successfully achieved a global technology export deal worth a total of 750 billion KRW. The deal involves an innovative RNA-based new drug candidate for the treatment of intractable epilepsy.

Research

Next Generation Robots Roaming Shipyards and City Centers​ KAIST announced on the September 30th that domestic robot startups, founded on KAIST research achievements, are driving new innovation at shipyards and urban worksites. An industrial walking robot that freely climbs walls and ceilings and a humanoid walking robot that walks through downtown Gangnam are attracting attention as they enter the stage of commercialization. The stars are DIDEN Robotics Co., Ltd. and Eurobotics Co., Ltd.

3D Printing Becomes Stronger and More Economical with Light and AI​ Photocurable 3D printing, widely used for everything from dental treatments to complex prototype manufacturing, is fast and precise but has the limitation of being fragile and easily broken by impact. A KAIST research team has developed a new technology to overcome this weakness, paving the way for the more robust and economical production of everything from medical implants to precision machine parts.

Chemobiological Platform Enables Renewable Conversion of Sugars into Core Aromatic Hydrocarbons of Petroleum​ With growing concerns over fossil fuel depletion and the environmental impacts of petrochemical production, scientists are actively exploring renewable strategies to produce essential industrial chemicals. A collaborative research team—led by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee, Senior Vice President for Research, from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, together with Professor Sunkyu Han from the Department of Chemistry at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)—has developed an integrated chemobiological platform that converts renewable carbon sources such as glucose and glycerol into oxygenated precursors, which are subsequently deoxygenated in the same solvent system to yield benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and p-xylene (BTEX), which are fundamental aromatic hydrocarbons used in fuels, polymers, and consumer products.

Campus/People

KAIST, Dancing Like Navillera, AI Understands and Renders Garment Motions of Avatars​ KAIST (President Kwang Hyung Lee) announced on the 22nd that the research team of Professor Tae-Kyun Kim from the School of Computing has developed MPMAvatar, a spatial and physics based generative AI model that overcomes the limitations of existing 2D pixel based video generation technology.

Students' Choice for Best University, Increase of approximately 2fold over 3 years​ KAIST was selected as the number one Best University by students. According to a recent survey, people in their teens to 50s rated KAIST as the most outstanding university

Sharing Failures Makes Challenges Easier, Proposal for a National Campaign for Global Failure Day​ KAIST announced that it will launch a national campaign on Global Failure Day, October 13th, to encourage anyone in the nation to share their small, everyday failures. KAIST President Kwang Hyung Lee emphasized, "A culture unafraid of failure is the foundation of innovation. I hope that for just one day, October 13th, people recall and share the small failures they experienced today. That moment can be the starting point for a new challenge."

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