LATEST NEWS

  1. Congrats! Dr. Sanghee Lee; We are proud to share that our lab member, Dr. Sanghee Lee, has accepted a position as Assistant professor. -Aug 2025
  2.  Our biodegradable supra-metallic nanoparticles were accepted into the NIH/NCI Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL) program. - June 2025 
  3. Our paper about nanoparticle-mediated CRISPR genome editing is highlighted on the Cover of Small Science. 
  4. "Golds N’ Roses" 2nd place in the MRS Science as Art Competition. Congrats! Minjun
  5. Dr. Gupta's paper is featured in the Cover of Molecular Pharmaceutics. 
  6. PI, Dr. Dong-Hyun Kim promoted to Professor! - Sept 2024
  7. Congratulations! Dr. Sanghee Lee receives the SIR Foundation Research Scientist Award!. - Jan 2024 
  8. Our interventional oncology local immunotherapy project is highlighted in Advanced Healthcare Materials - Oct 2023
  9. Congratulations on successful thesis defense!! Hyunjun! You should be very proud of yourself. 
  10. Our review paper about image guided therapy and multifunctional nano-materials is highlighted in the Nanomedicine News of AZO nano and the Cover page of Advanced Nanobiomed Research. Congrats! Minjun. -11/08/2022
  11. "Degradable gold metallic nanoparticles" is featured in the cover of Small (Sep 23 2022 issue). Congrats! Hyunjun. - 9/29/2022
  12. Exciting to share our new results published in "Nano Today". Nanocarriers equipped with Z domain proteins enhanced the efficacy of immune checkpoint blockades. -08/12/2022
  13. Dr. Dong-Hyun Kim is giving an invited talk in NCI conference on "Micorbial-based Cancer Theranostics." -over 1,000 scientists and clinicians are registered. - 05/25/2022
  14. Our NK cell research is featured in NIBIB Science Highlights. -03/28/2022
  15. Congrats! Kijung! for the publication of review article in Theranostics. - 02/2022
  16. Our published paper (Nanoparticles mediated NK cell therapy) in ACS Nano is introduced in News Center of NU medicine. -08/2021
  17. Our recent paper (preclinical study about cTACE + sorafenib eluting microspheres) has been highlighted in the Cover of Radiology: Imaging Cancer, Jan 2021 issue. 
  18. Congrats! Bongseo for your Best Poster Award in UKC 2020! - 12/18/2020
  19. Congrats! Bongseo, Hyunjun and Bo! for the publication in ACS Nano - 09/10/2020 
  20. Our paper has been published in Nature Communications. Congratulations! Dr. Bo Yu and co-authors - 07/20/2020
  21. ​Dr. Dong-Hyun Kim receives the Academy's 2020 Distinguished Investigator Award. This prestigious honor recognizes individuals for their outstanding contributions to the field of medical imaging.-06/01/2020
  22. Society of Interventional Oncology Research Grant Award- PI: Drs. DH Kim and Bo Yu, Co-Inv: Dr. Bongseo Choi, Congrats! -03/20/2020
  23. NCI Clinical and Translational Exploratory/Developmental Studies study section meeting in in Bethesda, Maryland.- Dr. Kim - 2/27-2/28/2020
  24. A new member Dr. Kwang-Soo Kim joined our BIGMed lab. Welcome! - 1/06/2020
  25. Dr. Bongseo Choi's new paper "Sequential MR Image-Guided Local Immune Checkpoint Blockade Cancer Immunotherapy Using Ferumoxytol Capped Ultralarge Pore Mesoporous Silica Carriers after Stand Chemotherapy" is published and cover featured in Small ! Congratulations BIGMed Lab!!! - 11/7/2019
  26. NIH -  IGIS study section meeting in Washington DC- Dr. Kim - 10/24-10/25/2019
  27. Dr. Bo Yu is promoted to Research Assistant Professor. Congratulations!! -10/15/2019
  28. Invited talks in 13th Annual Meeting of Society of Gastrointestinal Intervention - Dr. DH Kim - 10/11/2019 - 10/12/2109
  29. Dr. Dong-Hyun Kim (PI of BIGMed) promoted to Associate Professor with the award of tenure. -06/28/2019​
  30. Dr. Dong-Hyun Kim received a courtesy faculty appointment in Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University. -08/29/2019
  31. Welcome all summer interns 2019 (Ashley, Bella, Brandon and Joshua)!
  32. BIGMed Lab Published New Paper in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (" Near Infrared Fluorescent Endoscopic Image-guided Photothermal Ablation Therapy of Colorectal Cancer using Dual-modal Gold Nanorods Targeting Tumor Infiltrating Innate Immune Cells in TransgenicTS4 CRE/APCloxΔ468  Mouse Model") ​
  33. Published our new paper in ​Advanced Functional Materials ("Janus Microcarriers for Magnetic Field‐Controlled Combination Chemotherapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma") Congrats! Soojeong, 
  34. Launched a special issue "Nano-pharmaceuticals for Image-Guided Cancer Therapy and Diagnosis" in pharmaceutics (MDPI).-3/14/2019
  35. A new member Dr. Taehoon Sim joined our BIGMed lab. Welcome! - 2/01/2019
  36. Wentao Zhang from BME at NU just joined our lab. Welcome! -1/10/2019
  37. 4 Abstracts are accepted for the oral presentations in SIR 2019. Congratulations! Kijung and Bo's abstract is selected as a featured abstract!
  38. A new member, Dr. Bongseo Choi just joined in our BIGMed lab. Welcome!!!.-8/22/2018
  39. Welcome! Hyunjun is joining in our BIGMed lab as a PhD student.-8/16/2018
  40. Drs. S. Cho, W. Park and J. Park's Three papers are accepted in ACS journals (ACS AMI/ACS ANM)- 8/7/2018
  41. Dr. Kim visited Zhejiang University, Hangzhou in China and gave an invited talk. -7/16/2018
  42. Dr. Dong-Hyun Kim was invited as a speaker and gave an invited talk in a session of Advanced Nanomaterials at NanoKorea 2018. -7/11/2018
  43. NCI awarded the BIGMed Lab a $1.76M grant to develop Catheter-Directed Image-Guided Combination Therapy (R01).
  44. Dr. Dong-Hyun Kim was appointed as an Adjunct Professor at Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
  45. Our lab member, Dr. Jason Pe, will give a presentation for Cancer and Physical Science (CAPS) Webinar in RHLCCC. - June 2018
  46. Dr. Dong-Hyun Kim has been selected as a HHMI mentor in SIR. HHMI Mentor - June 2018
  47. A talented scientist Dr. Bo Yu joined our BIGMed Lab from U of Wisconsin (Weibo Cai’s lab). His strong interdisciplinary research backgrounds will expand our research area and greatly boost current on-going projects. 
  48. Dr. Dong-Hyun Kim appointed as an Adjunct Professor at Department of Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago -May 2018
  49. Dr. Jason Pe joined BIGMed lab, he will conduct a project local delivered immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies-Mar 2018. 
  50. RSNA News Interview -Mar 2018
  51. Featured paper (Image-guided Cancer Nanomedicine) of Journal of Imaging -Jan 2018
  52. Featured paper in "Science to Practice" of Radiology journal. -Dec 2017
  53. Hot News!!! - Selected 2 front covers featuring each Soojeong's and Wooram's paper in "Advanced Materials" and "Advanced Functional Materials". A big congratulations to all and our lab. - Apr 2017
  54. Our first paper focusing on  Image Guided Immunotherapy has been accepted as letters in "ACS AMI". -Apr 2017
  55. Launched a special issue "Nanoparticles and Medical Imaging for Image Guided Medicine" in Journal of Imaging (MDPI).-Mar 2017
  56. ​Congrats! Soojeong's paper has been, accepted in "Advanced Materials"!-Mar 2017
  57. Another Cover featured paper in "Nanoscale"! Congratulations!  Wooram!-Mar 2017 
  58. ​Cover featured paper in "Small"! Great Job!  Wooram! -Feb 2017​​
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Chicago, IL 60611
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737 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 1600,
Chicago, IL 60611
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