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There\u2019s a moment in the lab, after he\u2019s made the peptide-based nanostructure to carry a drug to its target, after he\u2019s anticipated its structure, that Jin Mo Koo \u201917<\/strong> gets to see with his own eyes\u2014through TEM imaging\u2014what the molecule he\u2019s created actually looks like, and confirm that it actually works.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first time I saw that was my most memorable moment,\u201d says Koo, a senior who has earned the Sarah K. Doshna Undergraduate Research Award and the Loy Wilkinson Award.<\/p>\n

\"\"Koo, originally from Seoul, South Korea, chose to major in chemical and biomolecular engineering because of his interest in refining drug-delivery techniques to help heal people. The lab tests various peptide sequences and ways to functionalize them using dye and polymers, for example, to find the optimal properties to carry drugs to their target sites most efficiently. Koo\u2019s role is to make and characterize the peptides, whose potency and efficiency are then tested using animal studies.<\/p>\n

Koo is deciding between attending Caltech and Princeton next year to earn his PhD, with the ultimate goal of entering industry to start his own drug delivery company. His time in the lab has given him inner strength and taught him to take the broader view, he says; to keep trying when something doesn\u2019t work the first time. The experience of success in his courses and the lab has given him the confidence to tackle anything that comes his way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you fail one step, it doesn\u2019t mean the whole thing\u2019s going to fail,\u201d Koo says. \u201cI became more visionary than I was in high school.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-10967","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBuilding Peptides and Confidence in the Lab - Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/chembe\/news\/building-peptides-confidence-lab\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Building Peptides and Confidence in the Lab - Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There\u2019s a moment in the lab, after he\u2019s made the peptide-based nanostructure to carry a drug to its target, after he\u2019s anticipated its structure, that Jin Mo Koo \u201917 gets…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/chembe\/news\/building-peptides-confidence-lab\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-12-02T16:35:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Building Peptides and Confidence in the Lab - 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