“I’ve always been interested in how proteins are working in the real system, in real time, in real action,” Minjoung Kyoung says. She'll get to explore those dynamics with funding from a new five-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The pathways she's studying are relevant to some of the most pervasive diseases in the country. “My dream is to be able to predict disease before symptoms occur,” she shares. “That would be the best.”