□ Student startups Quester (CEO Jeongwu Lee) and Lmntic Biotech (CEO Dongwhan Ryu) from the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST; President Kunwoo Lee) won the Top Excellence and Excellence Prizes at the 2025 R&D Special Zone Science Technology Startup Investment Competition. More importantly, two student startups from DGIST won the prizes. □ Lmntic Biotech, which was awarded the Excellence Award, unveiled its innovative technology based on the One-Step Ultra-Pure CTC Liquid Biopsy Platform. It was founded in 2022 by CEO Dongwhan Ryu with his alumni, who finished an undergraduate program in DGIST. In particular, the startups that won the Grand Prize and Top Excellence Prize will receive a direct investment opportunity of up to KRW 1 billion from Mirae Holdings, and the startup that won the Excellence Prize will receive a follow-up investment review and support for expansion across the world.