There were many people come and go in 1999; 9 people came to the NCI-FCRDC and 7 people left our community for their new journey. We wish good luck to all of our former members who left NCI-FCRDC.

• List of names who came to the NCI-FRCDC: Oh Suwan, Chang Changsoo, Ahn Yongtae, Cho Kyuwoan, Park Euikyun, Cha Sungchul, Kim Sungbae, Park Minnie and Kim Youngyul
• List of names who left from the NCI-FCRDC: Kim Jae-bong (Hallym University), Kim Sookyung (Pharmaceutical company in Houston, TX), Rhim Jong-Sik (Center for prostate disease research, DOD), Lee SangHan (SoonChunHyang University), Moon Kiyoung (Korea), Kim Kyung-Tae (Harvard University), Cha Sungchul (USDA, Bethesda).

The other new change in our community is that we have our own homepage: The homepage can be a place where we can communicate among our (former, current and future) members. I personally thank to all of members who contributed their time to make our homepage, especially to Dr. Kim Jae-Bong and Dr. Lee Jae-Ho for their help.

In 1999, several social activities were made; 1) Farewell party and our retreat in Bethany Beach (February), 3) Spring Picnic at Fort Detrick (May), 4) Crab party at Gambrill State Park (August), 5) Year-End Party at Dr. Lee Jae-Ho's House (December). I would like to thank you all of members for voluntary help and participation to make those events successful. Especially, I would like to mention the names of person who provided their places for our social activities: Dr. Dr. Rhim Jong-Sik for providing his summer house in Bethany Beach and Dr. Lee Jae-Ho for allowing us to use his house for our year-end party. Playing tennis was another very successful social event. We want to say "Thank you" to Dr. Kim Jae-Heup and Dr. Oh Suwan for arranging time and announcement to play tennis.

Finally, I would like to thank you all members. Without your help and big supports, we could not made those many events with lots of joys in our memory. It was really my pleasure to serve our community in 1999. I hope we all can continue to support our new chairman Dr. Oh Suwan for year 2000. Thank you all.

Written by JONG-KEUK LEE

• Dr. Oh, Suwan has been elected as a new chairman for year 2000.
• Dr. Kim, Kyung-Tae got married and moved to Boston (Harvard University) for second postdoc experience.
• We will have Year-End Party on December 31 at Dr. Lee, Jae-Ho's House. A special thanks goes to Dr. Lee for providing us for our year-end party.
• In the November meeting, there was a discussion regarding the current format of our seminar. The brief summary of the suggested format of our monthly seminar is:

1. Provide more general background on your reseach work for other people who are not familiar to your research areas.
2. Don't present too much stuffs. You can prepare your presentation for approximately 30 minutes. Allow the rest of time for "Questions and Answers" for better understanding on your works. This format may allow us to finish the seminar in 1 hr ± 15 min.
3. The seminar will start on 4:30 sharp. Therefore, please be prepared to be there if you want to hear the seminar.

• Dr. Cha, Soung-Chul moved to USDA with his boss.
• Dr. Cho, Kyu-Woan got a new baby boy weighing 9.12 lb on November 3. Congratulation for getting new baby. We wish he can grow up well.

• Congratulations, Dr. Kim, Kyung-Tae ! She will get married in October in korea. She also accepted her second postdoc position from Harvard University and will leave Frederick in December. We wish she can have a very productive period in the new city, Boston.
• There is a new visiting korean scientist (Dr. Kim Sung-Bae) from Choong-Ang Hospital , Ulsan University, korea. He is going to study in Dr. Larry Kwak's Lab for 1 year.
• We will also have a new visiting korean scientist (Dr. Kim, YoungYul) from Korean National Institute of Health (KNIH) at the end of October. He will study at Nancy Colburn's Lab for 4 months.

• We have a new member this month from Vanderbilt university. She (Park, Minnie) is working in the anti-cancer drug design and development field.
• Mr. Lee, Hyo-Sang, who worked with Dr. Kim, Jae-Bong temporarily at NCI-FCRDC couple years ago, came to the Johns Hopkins University to pursue his Ph.D degree. (Tel: 410-467-9248)

• Dr. Cho Kyu-Wan 's family came to the USA in september . After he joined with his family, we can barely see him.
• Dr. Shin held another crab party to celebrate his daughter's 100-day after birth on September 18.

• Crab Party: We had a crab party on August 7 at Gambrill State Park 1) to wish good luck for Dr. Lee, Sang-Han who is returning to korea this month (August 26) and 2) to welcome Dr. Lee, Jong-Kil and Dr. Kim, Kyung-Je for their revisiting to NCI-FCRDC this summer.

• Congratulations ! Dr. Shin, Hyung-Doo got a new daughter (girl, 9 lb and 20 inch). Toy's Rus $50 gift certificate was given to him in the name of "All Korean Scientists at NCI-FCRDC".
• Dr. Oh, Suwan's wife will start to work in the NCI-FCRDC as a special volunteer. Welcome to the korean scientists community !

• Due to hot weather, the time to play tennis was changed from 5:30 PM to 9 PM during summer. Please contact Dr. Kim, Jae-Heup for more information regarding tennis, if you are interested.
• Our homepage was updated in Information Section with "A Guide for New Korean Scientists to NCI-FCRDC", which was prepared by Dr. Lee, Jae-Ho. We hope this information can be useful for new visiting korean scientists to NCI-FCRDC.
• Our spring picnic was a successful event. Thanks all for helping and participating our spring picnic. Our group picture taken at picnic was uploaded in our homepage.
• At our monthly (May) meeting, Dr. Cho, Kyu-Woan was elected as new our money keeper. That means you need to pay our annual membership fee ($30) to him. We also like to thank Dr. Kim, Kyung-Tae who did excellent job for keeping our money.
• We will have a new member in June (June 14, 1999). His name is Dr. Park, Eui-Kyun from KyungPook National University, korea. He is going to work as a postdoc at NCI-FCRDC.

• We have a spring picnic on May 15 (Saturday) at Fort Detrick Pond.
• Dr. Lee, Jae-Ho almost finished his draft, called " A Guide for New Korean Scientist to NCI-FCRDC". It will be available soon on our homepage in "INFORMATION" Section.
• Regardless of the number of our members at NCI-FCRDC, this year we will pay $50 for KSA-NIH annual membership fees for entire korean scientists at NCI-FCRDC.
• There was KSA-NIH annual picnic on May 1, 1999 at Black Hill Regional Park.
• We donated $440 for Dr. Lee, Young-Kyung, a korean postdoctoral scientist at NIH (Bethesda) who died recently due to stomach cancer. Thanks to all our members who voluntarily donated money for her.

• We have new two korean scientists as postdoc at NCI-FCRDC this month: Dr. Chang, Chang-Soo from korea who is working in X-ray crystallography field. Another person is Dr. Ahn, Yong-Tae from the University of Texas at Austin who majors in Microbiology & Cancer Biology. Welcome to our community !

• We have our own ("Korean Scientists at NCI-FCRDC') homepage
• We have couples of new korean scientists at NCI-FCRDC;
• Dr. Oh, Su-Wan (Lab. of Immunobiology)
• Dr. Cha, Seong-Chul (Lab. of Nutritional and molecular Regulation)
• Dr. Cho, Kyu-Woan (Lab. of Genomic Diversity)
• Dr. Kim, Jae-Bong got a new position from Hanlim University (Medical school, Dept. of Biochemistry) last February.
• Dr. Rhim, Johng-Sik will retire NIH this March and he will continue to work as associate director of Basic Research Division, Department of Defense, Center for Prostate Disease Research based at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
• Dr. Kim, Soo-Gyung got a permanent job from Pharmaceutical company around Houston, Texas, USA: I will update if more information is available.
• Dr. Park, Jong-Wook from Kye-Myung University revisited NCI-FCRDC to do some experiments in the Lab. of Experimental Immunology for 2 weeks.