Park Ha-rin, a master's student in the Biofermentation Convergence major at Kookmin University Graduate School, (Protein Evolution Research Lab, advisor Seo Joo-hyun) was recently selected as a recipient of the Seoul Scholarship Foundation AI Seoul Tech Graduate School Scholarship.

Park Ha-rin applied for the Seoul AI Tech Graduate School Scholarship with a research topic titled “AI-based design of therapeutic proteins” and was selected as a final recipient.

This research involves designing artificial proteins that can bind to proteins causing diseases in the human body and eliminate them using AI, and then actually producing them to measure their binding affinity. While the computer-aided design of artificial proteins is noteworthy, this research also has the advantage of verifying whether the designed artificial proteins can be mass-produced by actually producing them. The AI-based protein design technology applied in this study is an advanced technology that enables the development of binding proteins at ultra-high speeds with minimal cost and effort. It is expected to have diverse applications, including therapeutic proteins, diagnostic kit proteins, and industrial proteins.