Space LiinTech (CEO Hak-soon Yoon), a space medicine company, announced on the 24th that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Korea University Medical Center Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation (Director Hak-jun Kim) to promote cooperation and joint research in space medicine research.
This agreement aims to establish a collaborative framework for expanding medical research utilizing space environments, including microgravity, from hospital-centered research to an implementation structure based on industry-academia collaboration. The two organizations plan to jointly identify space-based research topics and pursue tangible results through phased joint research.
The Korea University Medical Center Industry-Academic Collaboration Foundation has been expanding industry collaboration, focusing on AI and digital healthcare, and strengthening the commercialization of medical research and open innovation. The two organizations aim to integrate the space environment into medical research, establishing a collaborative foundation for domestic researchers and industry to participate, and contributing to the expansion of the space medicine ecosystem.
Spacelintech will provide the foundation necessary for joint research based on its space environment experiment platform and space demonstration infrastructure operations capabilities, and will continue to provide technical support for space environment experiment operations. The Korea University Medical Center-Industry-Academic Collaboration Foundation will be responsible for identifying research topics and promoting research from a medical research perspective, and will support the dissemination of the academic value of joint research results. Furthermore, the scope of cooperation will be gradually expanded to ensure that research outcomes can be disseminated across academic and industrial settings.
Yoon Hak-soon, CEO of Spacelintech, explained that the core competitiveness of space medicine is the data and empirical experience acquired in the space environment, and announced that he would build a sustainable joint research model by combining medical research capabilities and space empirical infrastructure.
Kim Hak-jun, director of the Korea University Medical Center Industry-Academic Cooperation Center, said that space environment-based research is an area that expands the possibilities of future medical technology, and that he will strengthen cooperation to advance the joint research system based on open innovation experience and ensure that the results lead to innovation.
Spacelintech has recently accumulated experience and data on space environment experiments through the demonstration of a space medicine research module based on the International Space Station and satellite-based space bio research missions. Going forward, it plans to strengthen AI-based space demonstration capabilities, including automated experiment monitoring, to support medical researchers in efficiently utilizing the space environment. It also plans to refine the implementation model that enables space-based research to expand into terrestrial medical innovation.
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