Why do we need basic science research?

We do very basic science research, so it doesn’t look like we help cure diseases right away.

But there is a Korean saying that “When you know yourself and your enemy you will go to a war 100 times and you will win 100 times”.

In order to win a battle, you not only have to know your enemy but yourself.

So, in my opinion, it is critical to understand how our cells work in normal condition as much as to understand how our enemies such as viruses, bacteria, and cellular states in cancer and other diseases work.

We still have a lot of questions as to how things are made and regulated in our cells.

Our research lies in answering these fundamental questions of how a class of macromolecules, membrane proteins are targeted, translocated and integrated into the right membranes in the cell.