Professor Lim Gun-ill, the president of the Research Institute for Integrative Regenerative Biomedical Engineering of Dongguk University, has been elected as the next president (term from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021) at the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Korean Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society held on December 26.

Korean Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society is a leading society in stem cell regenerative medicine in Korea. It has hosted the World Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Conference (TERMIS World Congress) in Seoul in 2009 and Asia-Pacific Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Conference (TERMIS AP Congress) in Daegu in 2014.

Professor Lim Gun-ill has also been appointed as the president of the Asia-Pacific Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Conference, which will be held at the Jeju Convention Center in October 2022.