Professor Heo Chan-young of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital was elected as the president of the Skin and Beauty Medical Device Luxury Research Society.

The Korea Smart Medical Device Industry Promotion Foundation announced on the 28th that it had appointed Professor Heo Chan-young of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital as the chairman of the Skin and Beauty Medical Device Luxury Product Research Society. Professor Heo serves as a professor in the Department of Plastic Surgery at Seoul National University College of Medicine and serves as the Chief of Plastic Surgery at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital.

In his inauguration speech as president of the research group, Professor Heo said, “At a time when overseas medical staff’s interest in domestically produced skin and beauty medical devices is increasing, the research group for the premiumization of domestically produced skin and beauty medical devices, with industry-academia-related experts as members, is promoting the development of domestically produced skin and beauty medical devices.” “We will help devices dominate the global market,” he said, adding, “We will ensure that the research group launched today together with the foundation can become the best industry-academia-research network in Korea.”

To inaugurate the research group on this day, executives of the Korea Nonclinical Research Institute, executives of WIKICRO, executives of the Korea Skin Clinical Research Center, CEO of Plandocs, professor of dermatology at Seoul National University, CEO of Resense Medical, CEO of Ultra V, CEO of Shenb, CEO of Baz Biomedic, and MediHub 17 people, including the CEO, Professor of Plastic Surgery at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, CEO of Dope, Chairman of the Board of the Korean Skin and Hair Laser Society, CEO of BNS Med, CEO of Lab Incube, etc. Participated as a promoter.

Heo Young, vice-president of the foundation, which is launching a new medical device luxury research group, said, “The foundation operates luxury product research groups in each medical device field, and this year, 2024, we newly launched the electronic medicine and skin and beauty medical device luxury research group.” “We are working to make domestic medical devices of each department a premium product through the industry-university-research network, and through continuous collaboration, we will greatly contribute to overseas exports by improving the quality of domestic medical devices.” said.