Name: Sung-il Woo

My Area of Interest: Molecular genetics, neuroscience,

My Favourite Quote: Live, Love, Learn, Give

I am a: Professor of Neuropsychiatry

Short Profile:

What are your future goals? Where do you see your research going?:
Neurodegenerative Dementia therapeutic solution,
Schizophrenia pathogenic mechanism elucidation and therapeutic solution

Technologies seem to changing faster than ever, how do you adapt to that? What are the current technologies you are using?:
Stem cell tech.
Gene therapy
Neuroimaging
Pharmacogenomics

In the broader picture, where do you see the application for your cutting-edge research?:
Neurodegenerative Dementia therapeutic solution,
Schizophrenia pathogenic mechanism elucidation and therapeutic solution

Fast forward to 2020. What’s your vision of Genomics in 2020?:
It’s beyond my idea.

Name: Mensah-Nyagan

My Area of Interest: Functional genomics, Cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurodegenerative diseases, neurosteroids, peripheral neuropathies, pain

My Favourite Quote: Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition. ~François Rabelais, 1572

I am a: Professor at University of Strasbourg, France.

Short Profile:

What are your future goals? Where do you see your research going?:
Make significant progress in the understanding of neurodegenerative mechanisms in order to supply industries with valuable results which can allow the development of new and efficient strategies against neurodegenerative diseases.

Technologies seem to changing faster than ever, how do you adapt to that? What are the current technologies you are using?:
To adapt to the fast change, I use to renew as much as possible research apparatus and technologies in my research group in order to have the most recent and efficient technologies available for our research program.
Real-Time qPCR, shRNA, siRNA, Confocal laser scanning microscopy, HPLC coupled with continuous flow scintillation detection, behavioral analyses in transgenic mice.

In the broader picture, where do you see the application for your cutting-edge research?:
Industries developing drugs against neurodegenerative diseases, peripheral neuropathies and neuropathic pain.

Fast forward to 2020. What’s your vision of Genomics in 2020?:
Genomics should be able to make a breakthrough towards the understanding and the characterization of environmental factors involved in the regulation of gene expression. This will be important to decipher mechanisms involved in diseases related to gene dysregulation.