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Chungsan Award LectureSue Goo RheeDivision of Life and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ewha Womans UniversitySue Goo Rhee received his B.S. degree from Seoul National University in 1965 andPh.D. degree in organic chemistry from the Catholic University of America in 1972.He then joined the laboratory of Earl Stadtman and Boon Chock at the NHLBI,National Institutes of Health, where he was awarded tenure in 1979, and promoted firstto chief of the section of Signal Transduction in 1988 and then to chief of theLaboratory of Cell Signaling in 1994. In the fall of 2005, he returned to his nativeSouth Korea to join the faculty of Ewha Womans University. Dr. Rhee’s research until1986 was primarily concerned with the regulation of glutamine synthetase. During thistime his group observed that yeast glutamine synthetase is rapidly inactivated in a thiolcontainingbuffer yet retains activity in crude extracts containing the same thiol. Thisobservation led to Dr. Rhee’s discovery of a novel antioxidant enzyme now known asperoxiredoxin. Dr. Rhee’s research interests also include the transmembrane signalingpathways involving phospholipases and the intracellular messenger function of H2O2.This award was enacted to commemorate Professor Bong Seop Shin’s outstanding contribution to the progress of the society and it ispresented to scientists from both Korea and abroad who had achieved outstanding research works in the field of Molecular Medicine or whohad contributed significantly to Experimental Molecular Medicine (EMM) Journal.22 Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology