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Ewha and Dior Continue Education Support Partnership for Fostering Talented Women
Ewha and Dior Continue Education Support Partnership for Fostering Talented Women Ewha and Dior Continue Education Support Partnership for Fostering Talented Women Ewha Womans University will continue its partnership with the global fashion brand Christian Dior in 2025 with the aim to make joint efforts toward fostering future talent and achieving a sustainable society. Since 2022, Ewha and Dior have operated the Women@Dior program for Ewha students for the purpose of fostering female talent and promoting gender equality to build a sustainable society. Offered collaboratively by Dior and UNESCO, this program is a global mentoring and educational program dedicated to talented women selected from 75 partner schools around the world. Participants in the program benefit from a wide range of educational opportunities, including scholarships, mentorship with Dior professionals, and special lectures offered through an online learning platform. These experiences help them develop independence and self-confidence, expand networking among women, and build a progressive and sustainable future. [Left] WOMEN@DIOR x UNESCO 2024(© Laora Queyras) In 2022, Ewha became the first and only university in Korea to establish a partnership with Dior. The two organizations have collaborated together in various fields and operated mentoring and educational programs based on a shared understanding of the importance of women’s education. They also held a Dior autumn fashion show in the Ewha Campus Complex (ECC) building in April 2022. As the partnership continues, Dior has pledged to donate funds in support of the university’s efforts to nurture and educate female talent, as it has done over the past three years, with plans to further strengthen the collaboration starting in 2025. “Through the continued expansion of our partnership with Dior, we will make efforts to help our outstanding female students with creativity, a daring spirit, and sustainability to grow into future leaders of the global era,” said Ewha President Hyang-Sook Lee. “Maintaining our ongoing partnership with Ewha presents a special opportunity to continue the necessary efforts for inclusivity, autonomy, solidarity among women, and knowledge transmission,” said Delphine Arnault, Chairperson and CEO of Christian Dior Couture.
Professor Dong Ha Kim Develops Light-driven Nanoparticle-based Innovative Cancer Therapy
Professor Dong Ha Kim Develops Light-driven Nanoparticle-based Innovative Cancer Therapy Professor Dong Ha Kim Develops Light-driven Nanoparticle-based Innovative Cancer Therapy Dong Ha Kim | Luke P. Lee Professor Dong Ha Kim from the Department of Chemistry & Nanoscience and his team has developed optically tunable catalytic cancer therapy using enzyme-like chiral plasmonic nanoparticles (CPNs). Published in the online edition of Nature Communications on March 15, the research findings suggest an innovative way of effectively eliminating cancer cells by precisely adjusting the catalytic activity of the nanoparticles using circularized polarized light (CPL). The human body is home to complex biochemical reactions such as metabolism, signal transduction, and gene regulation that take place in a cascading manner. These reactions are regulated by enzymes and need to occur in a specific order under optimal conditions to achieve their full effectiveness. The research team mimicked these cascade reactions to develop cancer therapy that utilizes chiral nanoparticles. The research team created biomimetic chiral plasmonic nanoparticles with glucose oxidase and peroxidase activities, respectively, and suggested a method of separately regulating each reaction using CPL. In both cell studies and animal model experiments, the groups sequentially irradiated with CPL showed the highest radical generation and the most efficient cancer treatment outcomes compared to other groups, proving the excellence of this technology. This research is significant as it proposes a method to overcome the limitations of existing catalytic cancer therapies by integrating chirality into nanoparticles to enable them to mimic natural selective reactivity within living organisms and adding an optically tunable function. This technique not only has potential for medical applications, such as targeted drug delivery and regenerative medicine, but also is expected to shift the paradigm of medicine using nanotechnology. “Follow-up research is expected to examine this system’s broader applicability to diverse types of cancer, prove its effectiveness through clinical trials, and improve biocompatibility,” said Professor Kim. He added, “I hope that this new optical cancer therapy using nanoparticles is applied in real-life clinical settings.” Published as a paper titled “Optically tunable catalytic cancer therapy using enzyme-like chiral plasmonic nanoparticles,” the research was carried out in collaboration with Distinguished Visiting Professor Luke P. Lee, a leading scholar of bioengineering who was invited to Ewha under the Ewha Frontier 10-10 Project, with the participation of corresponding authors including Professor Ki Tae Nam and Professor Jeong Woo Han from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Seoul National University, as well as Dr. Sehoon Kim from the Chemical and Biological Integrative Research Center of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology.
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