A research team led by Won Bae Jeon at DGIST’s Companion Diagnostics and Medical Technology Research Group conducted a joint study with the research team of Professor Jong Eun Lee at Yonsei University’s College of Medicine and found a thermally responsive elastin-like polypeptide, a protein that controls acute intracerebral hemorrhage and accelerates nerve regeneration. Thermal-responsive elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) are cell-attaching proteins that are soluble in water at room temperature, but are transformed to insoluble gel at body temperature.