Professor Sumi Kim (Medical School) has been honored with the Young Physiologist Award presented by the Korean Physiological Society.

  The Young Physiologist Award is given to researchers nationwide who are under 40 years old and hold the rank of assistant professor or below, and who have demonstrated outstanding research achievements and exceptional research capability. The award signifies that the recipient possesses the foremost research ability among young physiologists.

  Professor Kim has conducted a variety of studies related to prognostic measurement and diagnostic markers for cancer, and over the past three years published a total of 21 SCI papers, attracting significant attention within the academic community.

  Recently, together with Professor Joo-Seok Lee of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, she published the results of a genomics-based study on prognostic diagnostic markers for liver cancer in the Journal of Hepatology (IF 11.665), the leading journal in hepatology, and also obtained a patent.

  In 2010, she developed diagnostic and therapeutic markers for esophageal cancer and published the findings in the Public Library of Science online journal PLOS ONE. In 2008, she received the Young Investigator Award from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and presented her research outcomes at a mini-symposium, generating considerable response.