Project Assistant Professor at CVRI, YCU-Medicine

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Dr. Kim earned Ph.D degree and a post-doctoral fellowship from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR. USA. Earlier he had obtained B.S and M.S from Korea University, Korea, securing first research position in nanoparticle synthesis and biosensing disciplines. He studied Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry as a PhD graduate assistant at Texas A&M University at College Station, TX and New Mexico State University at Las Cruces, NM, respectively. As a Sr. researcher, he joined Nanoparticles By Design Unit at Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology. Currently, Dr. Kim is a Project Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, Japan, where he serves as a chemical research leader in CVRI, pursuing research in biomedical engineering, nano-drug delivery, and cancer targeting. Dr. Kim has made significant contribution in the field of multifunctional nanobiomaterials. He has more than 16 years of research experience and 10 years of teaching, publishing more than 27 papers in high quality peer-reviewed journals/conferences such as NPG, ACS, RSC, IEEE, etc, 10 patents, and 3 book chapters (in press). In recent ground-breaking discoveries, his research team demonstrated novel nanoassembly-based drug delivery techniques applied to preclinical cancer targeting. Besides, he is working as an instructor in a graduate class and a peer-reviewer to quite a few international journals and reputed conferences.

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On the basis of in-depth inter-departmental disciplines in advanced materials design, his vibrant research expertise spans a dynamic spectrum of materials science, interplaying between traditional materials boundaries and leading-edge applications with overarching long-term aims of the followings:

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(1) Merging soft, nano, and living matters to improve human health, welfare, and sustainability.

(2) Solving mystery of life by understanding Nature's routes to molecular assembly  and exploring bio-inspired artificial systems.  

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