On September 2, 2016, Konkuk University announced that Professor Ji-Hong Lim of the Department of Biomedical Chemistry at the GLOCAL Campus in Chungju published a letter titled “A PGC1α-mediated transcriptional axis suppresses melanoma metastasis” in Nature with researchers from Harvard Medical School. Melanoma is particularly well known for its rapid progression towards metastasis, and the researchers identified that PGC1α, a transcriptional coactivator, suppresses the process, suggesting new therapeutic opportunities. Professor Lim’s research received funding from the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and the National Research Foundation of Korea.