Name: Soyeun Park

Designation: Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy,

University: Keimyung University

Country: Daegu, South Korea

Biography:

Soyeun Park received her Ph.D. in the field of biophysics from The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics in 2003. She was an assistant professor of Physics Department at Texas Tech University. She is now working as an associate professor of College of Pharmacy at Keimyung University, Daegu in South Korea. Her current research interests include the cellular nano-mechanics with a special emphasis on the cancer diagnosis and prognosis and the anti-cancer drug resistance. Her research topic is unique in a sense that it combines high-end nano-imaging tool such as atomic force microscopy and nano-fabrication techniques in order to investigate cancer biology and anticancer drug development. She is an author and co-author of many publications and member of review panels and editorial boards of scientific journals. Her research is supported by grants from National Research Foundation of Korea and others. Key words: atomic force microscopy, nano-bio-mechanics, cancer diagnosis, cancer prognosis, anticancer drug resistance, adhesion, motility, Young's modulus, nano-sphere lithography, mechanotransduction, tumor microenvironment, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, oral cancer, pancreatic cancer, actin cytoskeleton, keratin and focal adhesion.