Chonnam National University

South Korean national university in Gwangju with further campuses at Yeosu and Hwasun, founded in 1952 out of earlier colleges and one of the country's leading regional national universities. Teaches medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, nursing, biological sciences and biotechnology and engineering, runs the Chonnam National University Hospital and its Hwasun hospital with a cancer centre, and carries out research in drug development, natural products, biomaterials and clinical trials with its own research institutes.