Leading vascular research through ground-breaking discoveries and innovative challenges
Center for Vascular Research
Institute for Basic Science at the KAIST Campus
Our Activities
Our vision is to make ground-breaking discoveries, conceptual advances and paradigm shifts in vascular biology through basic and fundamental research
Explore organotypic EC heterogeneity, angiogenesis, vascular remodeling and vascular niche
Identify novel key regulators and clarify their mechanisms in the interaction between endothelial cells and pericytes
Explore organotypic lymphangiogenesis, lymphatic remodeling and regression and lymphatic functions
Identify cardioblasts and clarify their characteristics and effective applications for cardiac regeneration
Undertake creative approaches and develop innovative methods for angiogenesis, lymphangiogenesis, vascular remodeling, and cardiogenesis
News and Gallery
New research paper is accepted by Science Immunology!
An article by Young-Chan Kim titled "Immaturity of immune cells around the dural venous sinuses contributes to viral meningoencephalitis in neonates" is accepted by Science Immunology.
July 28, 2023
Congratulations!
Director Gou Young Koh won the 2023 Republic of Korea's Top Scientist and Technologist Award for for his groundbreaking research on cerebrospinal fluid waste clearance in the brain as well as the survival strategy of cancer cells reaching the lymph nodes.
July 02, 2023
Congratulations!
Hokyung Jin, a PhD student at IBS Center for Vascular Reseach, won a poster prize at the Cerebral Vascular Biology 2023 for his exellent work.
June 22, 2023
Nasal ciliated cells are primary targets for SARS-CoV-2 replication in early stage of COVID 19
Lymphatic vessel in lacteal