Professional Bio
Tae Kon Kim, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His research focuses on dissecting mechanisms of immune evasion and developing new therapeutic modalities for the treatment of leukemia.
He has received research training under the mentorship of Dr. Lieping Chen, a pioneer in the field of immuno-oncology responsible for key discoveries involving PD-L1 and its interaction with PD-1 in cancer patients. Dr. Kim's translational investigations have focused on the role of novel co-inhibitory molecules during immune evasion in cancers including leukemia. He is also interested in selectively inhibiting graft-versus-host disease with sparing graft-versus-leukemia by manipulating co-stimulatory and co-inhibitory molecules.
His achievements include receiving the American Society of Hematology Scholar Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology Career Development Award, the Evans MDS Young Investigator Award, the American Cancer Society Clinician Scientist Development Grant and Forbeck Scholar Award.
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Education
MD - Seoul National University, 2001
PhD - Immunology/Biomedical Sciences - University of Texas at Austin, 2010
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307