Sang Hee Kim received the following degrees: B.S. (2001) and M.S. (2003) at the Korea University; Ph. D. (2009) at the University of Missouri, USA. Since 2017, he has been working as an assistant professor at the Gyeongsang National University, South Korea. His research aims at understanding the molecular mechanism of plant immune activation and regulation, and developing a novel method to engineer disease resistance in plants that takes advantage of the disease resistance (R) gene. Ultimately, he plans to translate this foundational knowledge to crops with the goal of engineering durable and broad-spectrum resistance.