Tae Kon (TK) Kim
Vanderbilt Center for Immunobiology
Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center (VICC)
Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation (VI4)
Cancer Biology Graduate Program
Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology (MPI)
The Kim lab (KIM LAB AT VUMC-HEM/ONC) is in the division of Hematology/Oncology, the department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The Kim lab is also affiliated with Vanderbilt Center for Immunobiology (VCI) and Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation (VI4). Dr. Kim (PI) is a physician who treats leukemia/lymphoma/myeloma patients using chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation. Dr. Kim is also an immunologist who is interested in tumor (Cancer) immunology, checkpoint immunology (beyond PD-1 and PD-L1) and transplant immunology. We are looking for enthusiastic students and post-doctoral fellows.
Keywords: Cancer Immunology , Checkpoint biology , Graft-versus-host disease , VISTA , PD-1-PD-L1 , LAIR1
Research Area: Cancer Biology , Cancer Immunology , Immunology ,