Hong Sook Kim has been an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Sungkyunkwan University since 2020. They received a Ph.D. in molecular biology and medicine from Seoul National University in 2007 and received postdoctoral fellow training at the University of California, Los Angeles and at the University of California, San Diego from 2008 to 2012. They served as project scientist at the University of California, San Diego from 2013 to 2018, and as a senior scientist at Sungkyunkwan University in 2019. Their research focuses on using genetic/epigenetic methods and diverse data types to gain insight into the molecular characteristics and the molecular mechanism of cancer. They are particularly interested in discovering novel genetic/epigenetic oncogenic markers, understanding their functions in tumor microenvironments, and suggesting therapeutic targets.