Kiwon Song, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry Yonsei University Seoul, Korea Kiwon Song is an associate professor of Biochemistry at Yonsei University in Korea. Yonsei University is one of the most leading universities in Korea with longest history. It is a research-oriented university renowned for the life sciences and medical studies. Yonsei University is in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. Since woman professors are rare in the famous universities in Korea, Kiwon Song want to be a good role model for woman students in science fields as a good teacher as well as an excellent scientist. Her research is focus on elucidating the biochemical mechanisms of cell division especially the proper segregation of chromosomes and cytokinesis. Kiwon Song graduated Yonsei University summa cum laude in 1987. She holds a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Yonsei University in Korea. She also received the pre-scholar fellowship from Pohang Iron & Steel Co. for studying abroad. She went to Cornell University for graduate studies and received the Ph. D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 1994. During her Ph. D., she studies the early embryonic cell division in Drosophila and trained for genetic as well as molecular biological approaches to the fundamental questions of life. Prior to being an assistant professor at Yonsei University in 1996, Kiwon Song spent two years at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine as a post-doctoral research fellow. At that time, she decided to focus her research on the mechanisms of cell division and the regulation of cytoskeleton during the cell division, since that is one of the most important questions in life, yet to be solved at molecular level. She received the tenure in 2000 and promoted to an associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Yonsei University.