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...protein, called an idiotype, that distinguishes them from their healthy counterparts. Mixing the idiotype with other substances that trigger immunological responses, "the vaccine presents a tumor protein to the patients in such a way that their immune systems recognize it and destroy any cells bearing that protein," explains Larry Kwak, associate director of Cancer Immunology Research at Houston's MD Anderson Cancer Center and a leading vaccine researcher...
...Kwak, a junior at Duke, is managing editor of the campus newspaper, The Chronicle...
...feel more at home.“An amazing amount of opportunity has opened up for me. I’m thinking about staying longer in the United States,” Marentis said.The other Harvard-affiliated Soros Fellows are Deema Arafah, Alvaro Bedoya, Amit Bouri, Susie Huang, Paul Kwak, Elizabeth Kwo, Darryl Li, Sze-Ling Ng, Antonio Perez, Yulia Ryzhik, and Colette Shen. The program has 172 alumni and 60 students currently participating...
...When Jun decided she was ready to return to comedy, so was Kwak. He'd written the script for Windstruck, a tale of a romance between a goofy high-school teacher and a sassy female police officer, with Jun in mind. The script?and Jun's likely involvement?caught the attention of Kong, who was looking for a way into South Korea's ballooning film industry, which now captures more than 50% of the country's box office. Kong thought that a broad South Korean comedy like Windstruck, with an international star like Jun, had a chance...
...Windstruck wants to be a more ambitious film than Sassy, so Kwak turns off the fun too soon and retreats to typically South Korean melodrama. Yet the movie manages to rise above its occasional sappiness, thanks mostly to the charm of its two young stars. Jun pulls off her signature trick: veering between violence and vulnerability and back again, without missing a beat. After lunch, she leaves for a photo shoot, for which the concept?apparently?is that she is "the world's favorite girlfriend." Not yet. But give her time...