Appetite for Science

International Medical Seminar

I’ve just found pictures of the International Medical Seminar I participated in 2012. The seminar’s…

Last week, I’ve been to KAIST and participated at a conference named Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) as a speaker. I was the youngest and the first high school student to ever participate in this conference. My topic was on broadband network and how…

Korea High School Biosafety & Bioindustry Debate Championship

My friend and I participated in a debate championship on biosafety and bioindustry, and we ended up…

KI for the BioCentury (KIS), KAIST

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is a research university located in…

TeachAIDS Bracelets!

Aqua Terrarium

My friends and I helped elementary school kids make their aqua terrariums! I’ll just upload the…

Clinical pharmacokinetics is the application of pharmacokinetic principles to the therapeutic management of patients by controlling dosage regimen.

ADME

Absorption is the process by which unchanged drug proceeds from site of administration to the site of…

Clinical pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics are very important concepts, especially in clinical trials.

pharma (drug) + kinetics (motion) = pharmacokinetics (PK), drug motion Pharmacokinetics explains changes in amount of the medicine in accordance to…

A biomarker is a characteristic that is objectively measured and evaluated as an indicator of normal biologic processes, pathogenic processes, or pharmacologic responses to a therapeutic intervention. (Biomarkers Definitions Working Group, 1998)

Types of…

It is very important to plan and record every single process during a clinical trial.

Researchers write a protocol (PRT), that shows how the trial is performed, and the clinical trial can only be done with the approved protocol only. Then, who examines…

Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Tuskegee syphilis experiment is an infamous case which triggered active legislation of laws dealing…

First Phase The purposes of the very first phase are (1) to expect effects of medicine treatment, (2) check safety issues. As for safety, researchers check whether the substance in testing works well with other substances in case there’s a time to take…

Clinical trials are sets of tests in medical research and drug development that generate safety and efficacy data (or more specifically, information about adverse drug reactions and adverse effects of other treatments) for health interventions. (from…

Meeting with Piya Sorcar

This is also last year’s picture. When I visited the US to have a tour around the campuses and…

UCLA (Campus & Medical Centers)

MIT http://wp.me/s2QmNL-mit

Harvard Medical School Campus