Marine Medicinal Foods

Professor Se-Kwon Kim, PhD, currently serves as a senior professor in the Department of Chemistry and the director of the Marine Bioprocess Research Center (MBPRC) at Pukyong National University in the Republic of Korea. He received his BSc, MSc, and PhD from the Pukyong National University and joined as a faculty member. He has previously served as a scientist in the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (1988-1989), and was a visiting scientist at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada (1999-2000).Professor Se-Kwon Kim was the first president of the Korean Society of Chitin and Chitosan (1986-1990) and the Korean Society of Marine Biotechnology (2006-2007). He was also the chairman for the 7th Asia-Pacific Chitin and Chitosan Symposium, which was held in South Korea in 2006. He is one of the board members of the International Society of Marine Biotechnology and the International Society for Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods. Moreover, he was the editor in chief of the Korean Journal of Life Sciences (1995-1997), the Korean Journal of Fisheries Science and Technology (2006-2007), and the Korean Journal of Marine Bioscience and Biotechnology (2006-present). His research has been credited with the best paper award from the American Oil Chemist’s Society (AOCS) and the Korean Society of Fisheries Science and Technology in 2002.Professor Se-Kwon Kim’s major research interests are investigation and development of bioactive substances derived from marine organisms and their application in oriental medicine, nutraceuticals, and cosmeceuticals via marine bioprocessing and mass- production technologies. He has also conducted research on the development of bioactive materials from marine organisms for applications in oriental medicine, cosmeceuticals, and nutraceuticals. To date, he has authored over 600 research papers and holds 152 patents. In addition, he has written or edited more than 60 books.

• 1. Medicinal uses of marine animals: Current state and prospects2. Nutraceutical functionalities of polysaccharides from marine invertebrate3. Marine byproduct phospholipids as booster of medicinal compounds4. Characterization of bioactive peptides obtained from marine invertebrates5. Bioactive marine peptides: nutraceutical value and novel approaches6. Chitosan and fish collagen as biomaterials for regeneration medicine7. Chitosan as potential marine nutraceuticals8. Bioactive compounds from marine sponges and their symbiotic microbes: A potential source of Nutraceuticals9. Medicinal Benefits of Marine Invertebrates: Sources for Discovering Natural Drug Candidates10. Sea-originated cyotoxic substances11. Secondary metabolites with new medicinal functions from marine organisms 12. Structure-function relationship of anticoagulant and antithrombotic well-defined13. Functional lipids from marine sources and their health benefits14 Health benefits of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids: eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid 15. Biological importance and applications of squalene and squalane16. Development and health beneficial effects of bioactive peptides from various fish proteins17. Marine fish derived bioactive peptides as potential antihypertensive agents18. Bioactive sterols from marine resources and their potential benefits for human health19. Therapeutic Drug: Healing Power of Marine Fish20.Beneficial effect of teleost fish bone peptide as calcium supplements for bone mineralization21. Triterpene glycosides from sea cucumbers and their biological activities22. Chitooligosaccharides as potential nutraceuticals: Production and bioactivities23. Biological activities of glucosamine and its related substances24. Development of marine probiotics: prospects and approach25.Bioactive Secondary Metabolites from Marine Microbes for Drug Discovery26. Marine bacterial sources of bio active compound27. Biological activities and health effects of terpenoids from marine Fungi28. Anti- metastasis effect of anthraquinones from marine fungus, Microsporum sp.29. Application of marine microbial enzymes in the food and pharmaceutical industries30. Enzymatic properties of starfish phospholipase A2 and its application31. Applications of carbohydrates from marine animal sources in the food industry32. Applications of marine nutraceuticals in dairy products33. Upgrading of seafood by-products: potential nutraceutical applications34. Utilization of seafood processing by-products: medicinal applications

"While marine species make up about half of global biodiversity, their extensive capacity to produce natural products and its importance to marine pharmaceutical and nutraceutical companies and others was only recently discovered by the scientific communities. The field of marine biotechnology is looking at microbes and animals like algae, sponges, and coral as a plentiful source of substances for use in the treatment of severe human diseases. This book explores the current status and potential for medicinal foods from marine animals, the various compounds available, and the staggering possibilities of their use in treating a wide range of diseases, from cancer to hypertension and much more." --Reference and Research Book News, August 2012