Kwangwoo Kim, PhD
Principal Investigator
2023-present Special Volunteer, NIAMS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
2020-present Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology & Dept. of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department Chair (in 2021-2022), Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Kyung Hee University
2016-2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University
2015-2016 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Rheumatology, Hanyang University
2013-2014 Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
2011-2012 Senior Engineer, Bio-Tech Group, Samsung Techwin. Inc., Seongnam, Republic of Korea
2007-2011 PhD, Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST
2005-2007 MSc, Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST
2000-2005 BSc, Department of Molecular Biology, Pusan National University
Chae-Yeon Yu (yuo1996@khu.ac.kr)
PhD Student (in the MS/PhD-integrated program)
Sep 2019 - Present PhD, Dept. of Biology & Dept. of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyung Hee University
Mar 2015 - Aug 2019 BS, Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University
Sep 2019 - Aug 2021 Received a two-year full scholarship from Kyung Hee University
Junho Lee (rhsrhdfyd@khu.ac.kr)
PhD Student
Mar 2023 - Present PhD, Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University
Sep 2020 - Feb 2023 MSc, Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyung Hee University
Mar 2014 - Feb 2020 BS, Dept. of Medical Biotechnology & Dept. of Medicinal Bioscience, Soonchunhyang University
Sehwan Chun (chunsehwan0922@gmail.com)
PhD Student
Mar 2023 - Present PhD, Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University
Jul 2019 - Present Bioinformatician, Corestem, Inc.
Sep 2017 - Aug 2019 MSc, Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University
Mar 2013 - Feb 2017 BS, Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University
Sep 2017 - Aug 2019 Received a two-year full scholarship from Kyung Hee University
Mar 2015 - Feb 2017 Received a full scholarship from Kwanjeong Educational Foundation
Ayeong Kwon (ah5126@khu.ac.kr)
PhD Student (in the MS/PhD-integrated program)
Mar 2022 - Present PhD, Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University
Mar 2017 - Feb 2022 BS (Summa cum laude, Dean's Award), Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University
with the completion of a secondary school teaching certificate program in biology
Mar 2022 - Feb 2025 Received a three-year full scholarship from Kyung Hee University
Hyunmin Im (imhyeonmin0927@gmail.com)
PhD Student (in the MS/PhD-integrated program)
Sep 2023 - Present PhD, Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University
Mar 2019 - Aug 2023 BS, School of Systems Biomedical Science, Soongsil University
Chan Young Kim (unhavi@khu.ac.kr)
PhD Student (in the MS/PhD-integrated program)
Mar 2024 - Present PhD, Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University
Mar 2018 - Feb 2024 BS (Summa cum laude), Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University
Mar 2024 - Feb 2027 Received a three-year full scholarship from Kyung Hee University
Intern Researchers
Positions Available!!
Post-Doc
We are looking for a Post-Doc fellow who has significant experience about genomic, epigenomic and/or transcriptomic data analysis. Applicants should submit a single pdf file for CV to Kwangwoo (kkim@khu.ac.kr).
Graduate Students
We are looking for graduate students for genomic/bioinformatic studies using large biological data. If you want to join the lab, feel free to contact Kwangwoo (kkim@khu.ac.kr). It would be great that applicants like biology and computer programming.
PhD alumni
Eunji Ha (PhD; MS-PhD integrated course from Mar 2018 to Feb 2023): Postdoc Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania
MSc alumni
Junho Lee (MSc; Master's course from Sep 2020 to Feb 2023): PhD student at the Kim lab
Ki-Nam Gu (MSc; BS-MS integrated course from Sep 2018 to Feb 2020): Bioinformatician at LG Household & Health Care
Sehwan Chun (MSc; Master's course from Sep 2017 to Aug 2019): Bioinformatician at CoreStem (in the Technical Research Personnel program;병특)
PhD student at the Kim lab
Jiwoo Lim (MSc; Master's course from Mar 2017 to Feb 2019): Bioinformatician at Genome Opinion