Principal Research Scientist
Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
Hesson Chung, Principal Research Scientist at KIST, developed Liporaxel, an oral paclitaxel anticancer formulation. She earned a PhD in Chemistry from The Ohio State University in 1994 with a thesis 'The curvature elastic-energy function of the lipid–water cubic mesophase' and has worked in drug delivery systems appilied to biomedical engineering, neuromedicine, cosmeceutical and Innovative Enterprise Cooperation Centers at KIST since 1999.