Dong-A University Opens Its G-LAMP Atomic and Quantum Research Center in Busan on 20 October 2026: KRW 25 Billion for Quantum Computing, Medical Image Analysis and Radioisotope Drugs
What Dong-A University opened in Busan on 20 October 2026
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Dong-A University in Busan opened the offices of its new G-LAMP research group on 20 October 2026, with about 100 guests on its Seunghak Campus. The group has roughly KRW 25 billion in national funding to build a research platform on atomic and quantum technology that reaches from basic science into diagnosis and treatment.
The university announced the opening on 21 October, and Korean outlets including Money Today reported it the same day. G-LAMP is a basic science research hub program run by Korea's Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea. Dong-A was selected as a new group in 2025, and the October ceremony marks the start of its full research activity. President Lee Hae-woo, project director Jeong Jin-woong, Busan's deputy mayor for administration Kim Kyung-deok and Heo Jeong-eun of the National Research Foundation were among those present.
The research plan, as the university describes it, has a clear medical end. Its listed priorities include quantum computing and information processing applied to medical image analysis, the synthesis of new quantum materials, research using radioisotopes, and the development of diagnostic and therapeutic substances with clinical application. Jeong said the group would build an integrated platform covering everything from basic technology to clinical application, and Lee spoke of combining atomic and quantum science with advanced medical technology to open a new field.
For a reader in a hospital or a pharmaceutical company, the opening is an early signal. It funds people, laboratories and a direction of work in Korea's southeast. The reports of the opening cite no study, no device, no measured outcome and no timetable for clinical work. What it does show is where a Korean university chose to point about KRW 25 billion of public money for quantum research: toward imaging, radiopharmaceuticals and the clinic.
The reports also leave some details uneven. The venue is given as the arts and sports college hall in some accounts and as the natural sciences college lobby in others, and the length of the funding period is reported in two ways. The substance of the plan is the same in every account. The differences matter for anyone who cites the program in a funding comparison.