Dr. Kim holds a Ph.D. in molecular genetics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and completed post-doctoral research at Harvard Medical School. Since 2015, he has been a dedicated researcher and an associate professor at Tianjin University and Duke Kunshan University, instructing undergraduate and graduate students in Microbiology, Cancer Genetics, Biochemistry and Cell Signaling and Diseases. His research centers on genome integrity and DNA repair, critical aspects of cancer biology. Dr. Kim investigates these processes using eukaryotic model systems, including C. elegans and human cells. His laboratory is particularly interested in understanding DNA repair mechanisms in the germline and has identified novel players in DNA damage repair, with validation studies performed in both C. elegans and human cells.