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


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