Chan Young, the newest member of the lab
Chan Young Kim officially joins the KimLab as a PhD student, entering the doctoral program in Biology at Kyung Hee University. Since July 2022, he has been actively engaged as…
Sehwan; Genetic Burden of Lupus and Its Role in Autoimmune Transition
Congratulations to Sehwan on the publication of his latest research in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (IF=20.3) on January 29, 2025! This study was conducted in collaboration with Professors Sang-Cheol…
At the ASHG 2023 annual meeting
Kwangwoo, Chae-Yeon, and Ayeong attended the ASHG 2023 annual meeting, which took place from November 1 to 5 in Washington, DC. Chae-Yeon and Ayeong presented posters about C4 variants and…
Welcoming Hyunmin IM to the KimLab’s PhD Program
I'm delighted to extend a warm welcome to Hyunmin Im, who joined the Kim Lab as a PhD student in September 2023. Hyunmin pursues her Ph.D. in the Department of…
New grant for Korea-China collaboration for lupus genetics
Exciting news unfolded as our collaborative research initiative with Professor Yong Cui from Beijing was honored with a grant from the NRF-NSFC (National Research Foundation of Korea - National Natural…
New paper in JCC: Novel variants conferring risk of Crohn’s Disease
We're pleased to share that a recent genetic study on Crohn's disease (CD) has been published in the Journal of Crohn's and Colitis (Impact Factor: 8.0) on July 31, 2023.…
Chae-Yeon’s transcriptomics paper accepted in Rheumatology
Chae-Yeon's study on transcriptomics got the green light for publication in Rheumatology (Impact Factor: 5.5) on July 28, 2023. Her study aimed to identify predictive biomarkers for treatment response by…
Sehwan received the Young Scientist Award
Congratulations to Sehwan for receiving the Young Scientist Award from LUPUS & KCR 2023. During the conference, he gave an outstanding talk at the end of the plenary lecture session,…
KimLab on Teacher’s day
(top; left to right) Ki Jung, Kwangwoo, Yujin, Chae-Yeon, Ayeong, Hyunmin, Sehwan (bottom; left to right) Chan Young, Junho, Ki-Nam GU (at LG Household & Health Care; MSc in 2020)
Lupus PRS paper of Eunji published in A&R
Dr. Eunji Ha (PhD in 2023), as a co-first author, conducted a lupus-specific polygenic risk score (PRS) analysis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and found associations of a high…