Laboratory of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Laboratory of Veterinary Internal Medicine

The Lab of Veterinary Internal Medicine investigates the causes, treatment, and prevention of various internal diseases in small and large animals. Teaching, research, and clinical practice at Seoul National University Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital focus on making individual diagnoses and treatment with up-to-date facilities in small animal medicine, and on enhancing prevention and production in large animal medicine. Furthermore, our laboratory provides clinical services in the fields of gastroenterology, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, endocrinology, oncology, nephrology, urology, and neurology for sick and injured animals referred from local animal hospitals, and also provides clinical services in the stem cell therapy of horses.

 

The Lab of Veterinary Internal Medicine investigates the causes, treatment, and prevention of various internal diseases in small and large animals. Teaching, research, and clinical practice at Seoul National University Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital focus on making individual diagnoses and treatment with up-to-date facilities in small animal medicine, and on enhancing prevention and production in large animal medicine.

 

Furthermore, our laboratory provides clinical services in the fields of gastroenterology, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, endocrinology, oncology, nephrology, urology, and neurology for sick and injured animals referred from local animal hospitals, and also provides clinical services in the stem cell therapy of horses.

Faculty

Youn, Hwa-Young (hyyoun@snu.ac.kr|T. +82-2-880-1266)

Chae, Joonseok (jschae@snu.ac.kr|T. +82-2-880-1279)

SEO Kyoungwon (kwseo@snu.ac.kr|T. +82-2-880-1180)

Research Interests

Youn, Hwa-Young

  • Stem cell and Gene therapy for intractable diseases of companion animals ∙Renal failure, Diabetes mellitus, Neuropathy ∙Cancer, Immune-mediated diseases
  • Bartonellosis

 

Chae, Joonseok

  • Predicting the emergence of vector-borne diseases based on climate changes
  • The relationship of tick-borne pathogens, vectors and hosts
  • Equine stem cell therapy

 

SEO Kyoungwon

  • Chemotherapy for Lymphoid, hematopoietic and other types of cancers/ cancer treatment target/ supportive or alternative cancer therapy for companion animals
  • Kidney Diseases, Hemodialysis and Fluid Therapy in dogs and cats
  • Endocrine diseases and stress-related biomarker development

Course Offered

College LevelGraduated Level
– Small Animal Internal Medicine & Practice 1-2 (3rd year)
– Large Animal Internal Medicine & Practice (3rd year)
– Equine Medicine (3rd year)
– Clinical Practice of Veterinary Internal Medicine (4th year)
– Topics on Companion animal Internal Medicine
– Topics on Companion Animal Clinical Nutrition
– Topics in Large Animal Internal Medicine
– Studies in Arthropod-borne Diseases