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IBS appoints Jang Seok-bok as new president in first internal selection
South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT on Wednesday appointed Jang Seok-bok as the new president of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS). Jang leads the IBS Center for Molecular Catalysis and is a distinguished professor in KAIST\'s chemistry department. It is the first time an internal IBS research group leader has been selected to head the institute. His term runs for five years from Wednesday.
