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Doosan Yonkang Foundation Donates 100 Million Won for Cancer Research to Seoul National University Hospital

2017.08.20

Doosan Yonkang Foundation (Chairman Yong Hyun Park) announced that it had awarded 100
million won (about $88,000) to Seoul National University Hospital to support cancer research.



The fund will be used to support the research of three professors of medicine at Seoul National
University Hospital: Hyung-Jin Yoon, professor of the Department of Biomedical Engineering
(research on the development of the acute kidney injury predictive e-alert system for cancer
patients), Hyeonjin Kim, professor of the Department of Radiology, and Jin-Young Jang, professor of
the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic (HBP) Surgery.



Doosan signed a cancer research funding agreement with Seoul National University Hospital in 2006
and has awarded a 100 million won grant every year, bringing the cumulative donations to 1.2 billion
won as of this year.