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Kiwook Kim, PhD
Cancer Biology Research Program
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine
College of Medicine
Email: kiwook@uic.edu
Kiwook Kim, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine at UIC. His lab investigates the development and physiological roles of mononuclear phagocytes in steady state as well as pathological conditions, taking advantage of cutting-edge lineage-tracing approaches, cell ablation strategy and in-vivo imaging techniques combined with high throughput transcriptomic analysis. He has research interest in the origins and functions of macrophages in peripheral tissues.
Education
- PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science
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Research Focus
- Cancer Biology
- Tissue-resident Macrophages
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Monocytes
- Metastasis
- Bone Marrow-derived Macrophages
- Metabolism