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| From left, L'Oreal Korea President Christian Marcos, Prof. Lee You-mie, President of the Women's Bioscience Forum Mook In-hee and Secretary General of Korean National Commission for UNESCO Han Kyung-koo pose at The 20th Korea L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards held at Seoul Wave Art Center on June 15. Courtesy of L'Oreal Korea |
By Kim Jae-heun
Lee You-mie, a professor at Kyungpook National University's College of Pharmacy, received the Academic Promotion Award at the "20th Korea L'Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science Awards" held at Seoul Wave Art Center on June 15.
The anniversary ceremony was sponsored by L'Oreal Korea and the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, while the Women's Bioscience Forum hosted the event.
Lee was noted for her contribution to researching biologics and drug efficacy.
As the head of the Daegu-Gyeongbuk branch of the Association of Korean Woman Scientists and Engineers, Lee has contributed to fostering the next generation of female researchers.
Kim Bo-ram, a postdoctoral student at the Department of Biological Sciences at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) was awarded a scholarship.
She used fruit flies to research the function of intestinal cells and the interactions between a microbiome and the host animal. Kim is actively continuing research, announcing a total of nine papers as the main author or a co-author, in major SCI-E-grade journals, including Nature, Cell, Science and Cell Host & Microbe.
The second winner of the scholarship award, Park Min-hee, a research professor at Kyungpook National University's School of Medicine, identified a new target peptide factor that can minimize damage to immune cells originating from bone marrow, which is a side-effect of anti-cancer drugs.
The result was published in the EMBO Journal and Stem Cells. The research subject was recently chosen as a new project by the Ministry of Science and ICT, and Park is working on commercializing the finding.
The winner of the Academic Promotion Award will be awarded 20 million won, while 5 million will be given to each scholarship recipient.
L'Oreal Korea has been selecting and awarding outstanding female scientists since 2002 in collaboration with the Korean National Commission for UNESCO and the Women's Bioscience Forum.
A total of 84 people have won the award and scholarships so far.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Korea L'Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science Awards.
Laurent Gilbert, director of sustainable innovation at L'Oreal, was the speaker at a live webinar broadcasting the awards and used the event to explain the French company's 2030 sustainability commitments and innovative research projects.
