Heui-Soo Kim has worked as a Professor of Biological Sciences at the Pusan National University, Korea, since 1999. He was awarded a Ph.D. in 1997 from the Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan. He then completed his Postdoctoral studies at the Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel, in 1998, and Oxford University, UK in 1999. He has been involved in laboratory research on various primates. His research mainly focuses on comparative genomics, transcriptomics, bioinformatics, retro-virology, mobile genetic elements, phylogeny/evolution, and epigenetics using primate samples. Currently, he serves on the board of several scientific journals globally. His research interests include comparative genomics, transcriptomics bioinformatics, retro-virology mobile genetic elements, phylogeny/evolution, and epigenetics using primate samples.