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| Professor Yoon Jung-han |
Professor Yoon Jung-han has been selected as the first Daesang Hallym Food Science Award recipient according to an announcement Monday from Daesang, Korea's leading food company.
Yoon, a professor at the Chuncheon-based Hallym University's Department of Food Science and Nutrition, received a 20 million won prize for her research on the correlation between obesity and cancer.
She has been conducting extensive studies to discover foods that help prevent obesity, various inflammations and cancers in humans.
Yoon, who received a bachelor's degree in Food Science from Ewha Womans University in 1972, has served numerous academic and administrative posts throughout her 30-year career. Among other posts, she chaired the Korea Nutrition Society in 2013.
The professor earned a master's degree and a doctorate from the University of Minnesota in the United States in 1980 and 1982. She returned to Korea in 1994 and became a professor at Hallym.
"The Daesang Hallym Food Science Award is offered to boost the morale of food scientists and encourage them to produce meaningful academic work that can benefit the people," Daesang Corp. CEO Myung Hyung-sup said. "As a leading food enterprise in Korea, we will invest more in food science and technology."
The company decided to set up the award in December last year to promote academic research among scholars in the fields of food science, agriculture and life science. It received applications from April through October, announcing in November the recipient for the 20 million won research grant and a plaque.
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