Professor Noh Tae-il and Kang Seok-ho's team at Korea University Anam Hospital won the Korean Society of Urology's Academic Award
Nov 14, 2025
A team of professors Roh Tae-il and Kang Seok-ho of the Department of Urology at Korea University Anam Hospital recently won the 'Academic Award (in the category of overseas presentation thesis)" at the 77th regular academic conference of the Korean Society of Urology (KUA 2025)" held at COEX in Seoul.
Professor Roh Tae-il and Kang Seok-ho's team became the winners of the award in July in recognition of their outstanding academic achievements of the Diagnosis of Early-stage bladder Cancer via unprocessed urine samples at the point of care published as the cover paper of the world-class academic journal Nature Biomedical Engineering (IF 27.7, top 0.4% in the JCR field).
This paper contains innovative research results that can diagnose early bladder cancer with only urine without a pretreatment process.
As a result of the research team of Korea University Anam Hospital and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, the research team generated signals based on the activity of hyaluronidase, an enzyme in urine, developed a diagnostic kit that can be performed quickly, accurately and easily by overcoming the limitations of existing testing methods, and received great attention for proving high accuracy with 88.8% sensitivity and 88.9% specificity.
Professor Seokho Kang, a co-corresponding author, said "It is significant in that clinical and basic research have worked closely to present technologies that can change the paradigm of patient diagnostic environments" and "We will continue field-oriented practical cancer diagnostic research in the future."
Professor Noh Tae-il, co-first author, said "Adding access to diagnosis has the advantage of making it easier to detect cancer early in reality" and "Easy and quick diagnosis can treat bladder cancer early, and patients can expect a better prognosis"
Professor Roh Tae-il and Kang Seok-ho's team became the winners of the award in July in recognition of their outstanding academic achievements of the Diagnosis of Early-stage bladder Cancer via unprocessed urine samples at the point of care published as the cover paper of the world-class academic journal Nature Biomedical Engineering (IF 27.7, top 0.4% in the JCR field).
This paper contains innovative research results that can diagnose early bladder cancer with only urine without a pretreatment process.
As a result of the research team of Korea University Anam Hospital and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, the research team generated signals based on the activity of hyaluronidase, an enzyme in urine, developed a diagnostic kit that can be performed quickly, accurately and easily by overcoming the limitations of existing testing methods, and received great attention for proving high accuracy with 88.8% sensitivity and 88.9% specificity.
Professor Seokho Kang, a co-corresponding author, said "It is significant in that clinical and basic research have worked closely to present technologies that can change the paradigm of patient diagnostic environments" and "We will continue field-oriented practical cancer diagnostic research in the future."
Professor Noh Tae-il, co-first author, said "Adding access to diagnosis has the advantage of making it easier to detect cancer early in reality" and "Easy and quick diagnosis can treat bladder cancer early, and patients can expect a better prognosis"
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
