Dr. Corey received her RNDr. (M.S.) in 1989 from Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia, and her PhD in Organic Chemistry with specialization in Peptide Chemistry from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechoslovakia. She did postdoctoral studies in London at the University of London, School of Pharmacy, on synthesis of fragments of HIV p24; at the University of Colorado with Professor John M. Stewart in Denver, CO, on synthesis, purification, and characterization of an artificial enzyme; and at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, where she concentrated on various aspects of prostate cancer.