Professional Bio
Kyungsoo Kim, PhD, is a Research Instructor in Medicine in the Division of Genetic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He joined VUMC in 2021 following completion of his PhD from Seoul National University.
Specializing in electrophysiology in ventricular and atrial arrhythmias, Dr. Kim’s research interests include understanding what mechanism is related on atrial and ventricular arrhythmias causing heart failure, which are induced by abnormal intracellular calcium changes between regular heart contraction in cardiomyocytes. In addition to current mechanism, Dr. Kim is trying to investigate what cellular factors (e.g., ion channels) are associated with arrhythmogenesis.
At the same time, Dr. Kim is focused on providing a new paradigm for treatment of arrhythmia in structural and genetic heart diseases. To carry out for arrhythmia research projects, he is operating electro-physiological techniques such as single-cell patch-clamping for ion channel current and action potential, intracellular calcium and cell contraction measurements in cardiomyocytes of animal models and human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs).
Dr. Kim is also developing and performing new experimental survival procedures that enables the study of animal susceptibility to atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmia.
Education
PhD - Biomedical Sciences - Seoul National University, 2015
Fellowship - Atrial Fibrillation - Seoul National University, 2020
Fellowship - Pharmacology - Vanderbilt University, 2021
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307