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"My parents wanted their first daugther to become a very well known scientist, so I entered the Seoul national university where my major was bio-chemistry. My research area is related to breast cancer metastasis. It is very critical to regulate the metatstatic point because once the breast cancer becomes aggressive one, the survivability gets very low. So I had been interested in finding out that signaling network wich determined the metastatic point. I found some very important biomolecules which contribute to breast cell agressivness. I'm interested in the breast cancer small subtypes there is no effective target therapy. I work on that specific subtype and try to find out very nice effective target.
Science is something you cannot doing alone and there is so many collaborators to make oneachievment, so you have to harmonize with other people. In general, women have strenght in that harmonization, compare to men... I collaborate with medical doctors to get humans samples and to investigate the clinical relevance and also I work away the pharmaceutical companies, to find out some regulators targeting the biomoleculs that I found.

I am the president of the Pharmaceutical society of Korea - the second Woman president since 1946. I was also President of the Women biosciences' forum, initiated in 2001. Its goal was to encourage equal treatment between men and women and to help women bioscientists to develop their career. There is some inequality between men and women in the sciences because people still look differently women in science.Women have strenght and many of us are dedicated to the research, days and nights, so I think the women scientists have to get credit. I am a professor in Duksung women's university, where I teach pharmaceutical biochemestry. I think having experience in research give vividness to my lecture. Lecture and research make me busy all the time. I am working also to set a guideline for the safe laboratory for Women. It is very important. I gave birth to my first daughter when I was a PhDstudent, I was then working in a laboratory in USA, and my adviser was very helpfull. As I get now a senior position, I think my role would be to help young girls scientists!"

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