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'''Biosketch'''  
'''Biosketch'''  
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Dr. Deok‐Ho Kim has served as an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and a Faculty Member of the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, the Center for Cardiovascular Biology, and the Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute at the University of Washington since 2011. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University (2010), his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University (2000), and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from POSTECH (1998). In 1996, he studied at the University of Birmingham, UK, as a Hogil-Kim Memorial Fellow Exchange Student. From March 2000 to June 2005, he worked as a Research Scientist at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), which included a 7 month academic visit to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich (ETH‐Zurich). Prior to joining the University of Washington, he was an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University.  He is also the scientific founder of NanoSurface Biomedical Inc (2015).  His research interests center on the development and application of engineered microenvironments and functional tissue engineering models for elucidating regenerative biology, drug screening, disease modeling, and cell-based therapies. His current research aims to investigate how engineered microenvironments can direct cell function and tissue regeneration. Several specific thrusts of his current research program include multiscale biomimetic materials/devices/systems, functional tissue engineering, microscale stem/tumor cell niche engineering, and cell mechanobiology. He has authored and co-authored over 130 peer-reviewed journal articles and referenced conference proceedings, as well as 27 book chapters/editorials. In addition, he has edited two books and filed 21 patents (issued or pending; 2 licensed), and given more than 100 invited/keynote lectures. His papers have been cited over 4000 times in total (h-index: 34) and have been highlighted in Science Magazine, the JHU Gazette, UW Today, and many newspapers.  Dr. Kim is an Associate Editor for Biomedical Microdevices, the Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, the Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics, and the Journal of Tissue Engineering, and serves as a member of the editorial boards of numerous journals including Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), Theranostics, International Journal of Nanomedicine, IET Nanobiotechnology, and Journal of Laboratory Automation. Dr. Kim has also served as reviewer for many high-profiled journals including Nature, Science Signaling, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Biomaterials, Lab on a Chip, and Tissue Engineering.  Among the award he has received are the KIST Scientist of the Month Award (2005), the Surface Engineering Best Paper Award (2006), the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship (2008), the Samsung Humantech Thesis Award (2009), the Harold M. Weintraub Award in Biological Sciences (2010), the Perkins Coie Award for Discovery (2011), the American Heart Association National Scientist Development Award (2012), the KSEA Young Investigator Award (2013), the Springer Award for Most Downloaded and Most Cited Review Article from Annals of Biomedical Engineering (2013), the BMES-CMBE Rising Star Award (2013) and the BMES-CMBE Young Innovator Award (2015). <br> <br>


Deok-Ho Kim is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, a faculty member of the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, and the Center for Cardiovascular Biology at the University of Washington. He received the BS degree from POSTECH in 1998, the MS degree from Seoul National University in 2000, in Mechanical Engineering, and the PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2010. In 1996, he studied in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Birmingham, UK, as a Hogil-Kim Memorial Fellow Exchange Student. During 1998-2000, he was a Research Assistant in the Institute of Advanced Machinery and Design, Seoul National University, Korea. He worked as a Research Scientist at the Microsystem Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Korea from March 2000 to June 2005. Between November 2003 and June 2004, he was a Visiting Scholar, in Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Zurich (ETHZ) as a recipient of Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) fellowship. Prior to joining the University of Washington, he was an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include micro- and nanoengineering of the cell microenvironment, development and applications of biomimetic lab-on-a-chips and advanced biomaterials in stem cells and tissue engineering, and micro- and nanotechnologies for cell-matrix mechanobiology. His current research program focuses on investigating how the engineered cellular microenvironments can direct cell function and tissue regeneration. He has also contributed to the fields of micro/nano-mechatronics, microrobotics for embryology, advanced man-machine interface for micro/nano-manipulation, and cellular biomechanics. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal publications and conference proceedings/abstracts, 15 review articles, 4 book chapters, and 11 patents issued and pending (including 4 U.S. patents) in the area of mechatronics, micro/nanotechnology, and biomedical engineering. Deok-Ho received the Best Student Poster Paper Award from the Korea Society of Precision Engineers (KSPE) 1999, the Best Paper Award in Dynamics and Control Division from the Korea Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME) 1999, and the Best Presentation Award from the Institute of Control, Automation and Systems Engineers (ICASE) 2005, respectively. He received both the Outstanding Research Award in 2004 and "KIST People Award" in 2005 from KIST, and the First Surface Engineering Best Paper Award from the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers in 2007. He also received the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship in 2008, the Samsung Humantech Thesis Award in 2009, and the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award in Biological Sciences in 2010. He served as co-chair at the “Microfabrication and Property” session of the IEEE Symposium on Micromechatronics and Human Science, Japan 2001.  In September 2006 he was listed in the Marquis Who's Who in the World. He is a member of IEEE, ASME, BMES, and AAAS. <br> <br>
'''Research Interests'''


&bull; ''Cell and Tissue Engineering in Microsystems'': Micro- and nanoengineering of the cell microenvironment designed to facilitate advances in the biomedical sciences; particularly, microscale control of cell positioning, soluble and substratum-bound ligands, microscale stem/progenitor cell niche engineering, and microscale cardiovascular tissue engineering.
'''Selected Awards and Honors'''
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*BMES-CMBE Young Innovator Award; 2015; Biomedical Engineering Society
*Springer Award for Most Downloaded and Most Cited Review Article; 2013; Annals of Biomedical Engineering
*KSEA Young Investigator Award ($10,000 award); 2013; Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association
*BMES-CMBE 'Rising Star' Award; 2013; Biomedical Engineering Society
*National Scientist Development Grant Award; 2013; American Heart Association
*Elected Senior Member; 2012; IEEE
*Perkins Coie Award for Discovery; 2011; University of Washington
*Harold M. Weintraub Award in the Biological Sciences; 2010; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
*Samsung HumanTech Thesis Award – Silver Prize; 2009; Samsung
*Predoctoral Fellowship Award; 2008 – 2010; American Heart Association
*The Surface Engineering Best Paper Award; 2007; the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers
*KIST Scientist of the Month Award; March, 2005; Korea Institute of Science and Technology
*Scientist of the Year Award; 2004; Future Technology Research Division, Korea Institute of Science and Technology
*Recipient of KOSEF Oversea Research Fellowship; 2003; the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF)
*Hogil-Kim Memorial Fellow Exchange Student; 1996; University of Birmingham, UK


&bull; ''Mechanobiology and Mechanotransduction'': Signal transduction by engineered extracellular matrices, molecular in-chip live-cell imaging, cell and tissue morphodynamics, gradient sensing and directed cell migration, biophysical regulation of stem cell fates, cell mechanics.
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&bull; ''Biomedical Micro/Nanotechnology'': Fabrication of biomimetic micro/nanoscale systems and structures, nanoscale engineering in cell biology and therapy, micro/nanoengineered cell-biomaterial interaction, micro/nanoscale force measurements on biology, microrobotics for intelligent cell micromanipulation.
'''Research Interests'''
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*'''Biomedical Micro/Nanotechnology''': Fabrication of biomimetic micro/nanoscale systems and structures, nanoscale engineering in cell biology and therapy, micro/nanoengineered cell-biomaterial interaction, micro/nanoscale force measurements on biology, microrobotics for intelligent cell micromanipulation.
*'''Mechanobiology and Mechanotransduction''': Signal transduction by engineered extracellular matrices, molecular in-chip live-cell imaging, cell and tissue morphodynamics, gradient sensing and directed cell migration, biophysical regulation of stem cell fates, cell mechanics.
*'''Cell and Tissue Engineering in Microsystems''': Micro- and nanoengineering of the cell microenvironment designed to facilitate advances in biomedical sciences; particularly, microscale control of cell positioning, soluble and substratum-bound ligands, microscale stem/tumor cell niche engineering, and microscale cardiovascular tissue engineering.

Revision as of 00:04, 30 July 2016

Biosketch

Dr. Deok‐Ho Kim has served as an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and a Faculty Member of the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, the Center for Cardiovascular Biology, and the Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute at the University of Washington since 2011. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University (2010), his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University (2000), and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from POSTECH (1998). In 1996, he studied at the University of Birmingham, UK, as a Hogil-Kim Memorial Fellow Exchange Student. From March 2000 to June 2005, he worked as a Research Scientist at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), which included a 7 month academic visit to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich (ETH‐Zurich). Prior to joining the University of Washington, he was an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University. He is also the scientific founder of NanoSurface Biomedical Inc (2015). His research interests center on the development and application of engineered microenvironments and functional tissue engineering models for elucidating regenerative biology, drug screening, disease modeling, and cell-based therapies. His current research aims to investigate how engineered microenvironments can direct cell function and tissue regeneration. Several specific thrusts of his current research program include multiscale biomimetic materials/devices/systems, functional tissue engineering, microscale stem/tumor cell niche engineering, and cell mechanobiology. He has authored and co-authored over 130 peer-reviewed journal articles and referenced conference proceedings, as well as 27 book chapters/editorials. In addition, he has edited two books and filed 21 patents (issued or pending; 2 licensed), and given more than 100 invited/keynote lectures. His papers have been cited over 4000 times in total (h-index: 34) and have been highlighted in Science Magazine, the JHU Gazette, UW Today, and many newspapers. Dr. Kim is an Associate Editor for Biomedical Microdevices, the Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, the Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics, and the Journal of Tissue Engineering, and serves as a member of the editorial boards of numerous journals including Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), Theranostics, International Journal of Nanomedicine, IET Nanobiotechnology, and Journal of Laboratory Automation. Dr. Kim has also served as reviewer for many high-profiled journals including Nature, Science Signaling, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Biomaterials, Lab on a Chip, and Tissue Engineering. Among the award he has received are the KIST Scientist of the Month Award (2005), the Surface Engineering Best Paper Award (2006), the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship (2008), the Samsung Humantech Thesis Award (2009), the Harold M. Weintraub Award in Biological Sciences (2010), the Perkins Coie Award for Discovery (2011), the American Heart Association National Scientist Development Award (2012), the KSEA Young Investigator Award (2013), the Springer Award for Most Downloaded and Most Cited Review Article from Annals of Biomedical Engineering (2013), the BMES-CMBE Rising Star Award (2013) and the BMES-CMBE Young Innovator Award (2015).


Selected Awards and Honors

  • BMES-CMBE Young Innovator Award; 2015; Biomedical Engineering Society
  • Springer Award for Most Downloaded and Most Cited Review Article; 2013; Annals of Biomedical Engineering
  • KSEA Young Investigator Award ($10,000 award); 2013; Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association
  • BMES-CMBE 'Rising Star' Award; 2013; Biomedical Engineering Society
  • National Scientist Development Grant Award; 2013; American Heart Association
  • Elected Senior Member; 2012; IEEE
  • Perkins Coie Award for Discovery; 2011; University of Washington
  • Harold M. Weintraub Award in the Biological Sciences; 2010; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Samsung HumanTech Thesis Award – Silver Prize; 2009; Samsung
  • Predoctoral Fellowship Award; 2008 – 2010; American Heart Association
  • The Surface Engineering Best Paper Award; 2007; the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers
  • KIST Scientist of the Month Award; March, 2005; Korea Institute of Science and Technology
  • Scientist of the Year Award; 2004; Future Technology Research Division, Korea Institute of Science and Technology
  • Recipient of KOSEF Oversea Research Fellowship; 2003; the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF)
  • Hogil-Kim Memorial Fellow Exchange Student; 1996; University of Birmingham, UK


Research Interests

  • Biomedical Micro/Nanotechnology: Fabrication of biomimetic micro/nanoscale systems and structures, nanoscale engineering in cell biology and therapy, micro/nanoengineered cell-biomaterial interaction, micro/nanoscale force measurements on biology, microrobotics for intelligent cell micromanipulation.
  • Mechanobiology and Mechanotransduction: Signal transduction by engineered extracellular matrices, molecular in-chip live-cell imaging, cell and tissue morphodynamics, gradient sensing and directed cell migration, biophysical regulation of stem cell fates, cell mechanics.
  • Cell and Tissue Engineering in Microsystems: Micro- and nanoengineering of the cell microenvironment designed to facilitate advances in biomedical sciences; particularly, microscale control of cell positioning, soluble and substratum-bound ligands, microscale stem/tumor cell niche engineering, and microscale cardiovascular tissue engineering.
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