Researcher

My Expertise

  • Characterising human viromics (characterising the population of all human-infectious viruses) to identify causal infectious agents in undiagnosed infectious disease cases and elucidating the role of viral infections in chronic disease development
  • Application of cutting-edge virome characterisation methods including methods based on Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), such as virome capture sequencing (VirCapSeq), amplicon-WGS and VirScan (pan-viral serology)

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Fields of Research (FoR)

Paediatrics, Medical virology, Obstetrics and gynaecology, Sequence analysis, Virology, Endocrinology, Autoimmunity, Animal Cell and Molecular Biology

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Biography

Dr Ki Wook Kim is a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) International Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Clinical Medicine (Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health) within the Faculty of Medicine and Health, based at the Prince of Wales Hospital. Dr Kim completed his undergraduate degree, Honours and PhD in Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of Sydney, for which he investigated the roles and interactions of...view more

Location

Room 3114, L3 East, Bioscience South E26
UNSW Kensington Upper Campus