Dr. Ki-Hyuk Shin received his M.S. and Ph.D. from UCLA in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He is a professor in the Division of Oral and Systemic Health Sciences, and the director of Pre-Clinical Laboratory at the UCLA School of Dentistry. Dr. Shin is also a Principal Investigator at the Shapiro Family Laboratory of Viral Oncology and Aging Research, UCLA School of Dentistry, and an active member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Ki-Hyuk Shin's major research activities focus on the role of DNA damage and repair in oral carcinogenesis, the role of telomerase activity in oral carcinogenesis, and the replicative senescence of normal human oral cells.