Kwang-Youn A. Kim, PhD

Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine

Dr. Kim earned his BS in Cell Biology and Genetics from the University of British Columbia in 2000, MS in Biostatistics from the University of Michigan in 2002, and PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Iowa in 2006. Following his post-doctoral fellowship from 2006 to 2007 at the University of Iowa, he joined the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University as an assistant professor. He is also a biostatistician in the Biostatistics Collaboration Center and collaborates with various faculty members in biomedical research.

Research Interests

Dr. Kim's research interests involve statistical problems that arise in genetics and genomics research. He is particularly interested in developing statistical methods and computational tools to identify genes involved in Mendelian and complex genetic disorders. His work emphasizes the importance of characterizing gene-gene and gene-environment interactions in successfully identifying disease genes. Dr. Kim's research can be applied to various types of experiments, including genomic studies with high-throughput microarray data. His recent work has contributed in understanding the regulation of gene expression in the mammalian eye.

Recent Publications

1. Scheetz TE,* Kim KYA,* Swiderski RE, Philp AR, Braun TA, Knudtson KL, Dorrance AM, DiBona GF, Huang J, Casavant TL, Sheffield VC, Stone EM. Regulation of gene expression in the mammalian eye and its relevance to eye disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 103(39):14429-14434, Sep 2006. * Equal contribution
   
   

2. Fingert JH, Kwon YH, Moore PA, Johnston RM, Kim KY, Sheffield VC, Alward WLM, Stone EM. The C677T variant in the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene is not associated with disease in cohorts of seudoexfoliation glaucoma and primary open-angle glaucoma patients from Iowa. Ophthalmic Genet, 27(2):39-41, Jun 2006.
   

3. Chiang AP, Beck JS, Yen HJ, Tayeh MK, Scheetz TE, Swiderski RE, Nishimura DY, Braun TA, Kim KYA, Huang J, Elbedour K, Carm, R, Slusarski DC, Casavant TL, Stone EM, Sheffield VC. Homozygosity mapping with SNP arrays identifies TRIM32 an E3 ubiquitin ligase, as a Bardet-Biedl syndrome gene (BBS11). Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 103(16):6287-6292, Apr 2006.

4. Pan CC, Kim KY, Taylor JMG, McLaughlin PW, Sandler HM. Influence of 3D-CRT pelvic irradiation on outcome in prostate cancer treated with external beam radiotherapy. Int J Radiation Oncology Biol Phys, 53(5), Aug 2002.

    

PHONE: 312-908-7914
E-MAIL: kykim@northwestern.edu