Professor Kwon Young-joo from the Department of Pharmacy received the Nokam Academic Award at the ‘2020 Fall International Conference of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea’ on Oct. 21. Kwon conducted research on discovering the causes of new drug resistance incurred in refractory breast cancer and colon cancer. She also conducted research on finding integrated targets for Alzheimer’s disease and cancer metastasis. Kwon continues developing chemotherapy drugs and isomerselective inhibitors as well as finding isomer-specific functions of enzymes related to degenerative brain diseases.

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