Biography

I received my PhD from the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology at the Iowa State University (US) in 1989. I have been a professor at the College of Pharmacy at Duksung Women’s University in Seoul (Korea) since 1995. My main research field is cancer research, with a focus on the signalling of breast cancer progression. I have published more than 120 peer-reviewed papers in reputed journals. I have been on the editorial boards of the Journal of Molecular Signaling and the International Journal of Oncology. I received a number of awards including the Korean Order of Science and Technology Merit and L’Oréal-UNESCO For Woman in Science Korea Award. I am currently the president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea.