Korea's pioneering private research university, pairing a world-leading academic medical centre with frontier strength in materials, AI and nanoscience.
The IBS Center for NanoMedicine on Yonsei's Seoul campus continues to push nano-magnetogenetics, the wireless control of brain circuits, a decade after its founding.
A Yonsei-led team reports in Advanced Materials a biomaterial that blocks biofilm formation by pathogenic microbes without wiping out the beneficial species around them.
Yonsei chemists report a self-powered zinc-CO2 battery that converts carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide under industrially relevant conditions.
Yonsei researchers turn mixed food waste into biochar-graphene paper membranes that store thermal energy and manage moisture, reported in the journal Biochar.
An 868-patient trial led from Yonsei Cancer Center shows adding carboplatin lifts event-free survival in early triple-negative breast cancer, published in Annals of Oncology.
Three Yonsei College of Medicine professors feature in Korea's top 30 health R&D achievements for 2026, spanning digital psychiatry, cancer genetics and rhinology.
Professor Jong-Hyun Ahn's group wins a 2026 National Research Foundation Leader Research Program award for high-performance 3D integrated devices built on two-dimensional materials.
The Yonsei hospital's PRISM system standardises data from disparate medical devices and alerts rapid response teams the moment an inpatient's signs turn abnormal.
A government-backed platform led from Severance Hospital will combine eye fundus images with behavioural indicators to screen for autism traits in clinics and at home.
Two decades after introducing robot-assisted surgery to Korea, Yonsei's flagship hospital reaches a world-first milestone, with single-port procedures now almost half its robotic caseload.
Yonsei engineers report a palladium cantilever switch that draws picoamp standby current and closes only when hydrogen is present, published in Microsystems and Nanoengineering.
Yonsei and University of Southern California researchers pair a depth camera with a soft printed tactile array so robots can map millimetre-scale objects when vision fails.
Fifty-five employees across nineteen teams built deployable AI agents for clinical and administrative problems in a month-long competition across Yonsei's hospitals.
Yonsei and Samsung Medical Center researchers report in Nature Biomedical Engineering a wireless, biodegradable polymer implant that blocks pain signals on demand.
Severance and KAIST researchers report in Science that IDH-mutant glioma originates from mutation-bearing progenitor cells in apparently healthy cortex, reshaping ideas about surgery and early detection.
A National Fire Agency project led from Yonsei's Severance Hospital automates paramedic records, predicts deterioration in transit and recommends the right hospital.
Yonsei's Y-KNOT system drafts legally required emergency department discharge notes inside the hospital network, cutting writing time from 69.5 to 32 seconds in a JAMA Network Open study.
A Yonsei team's LiCl-4Li2TiF6 electrolyte stays stable beyond 5 volts and retains over 75 percent capacity after 500 cycles, work published in Nature Energy.