Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, SUNY at Buffalo in 1999. He completed post-doctoral training at the Ernest Gallo Clinic & Research Center, UCSF, where he initiated C. elegans genetic studies. He was appointed to associate investigator, an independent researcher position, in 2006. He joined the faculty of the Chicago Medical School as an assistant professor in the summer of 2008.