Kim Research Group

Dr. Kim delivered a national-level tutorial on biomaterials at the 3rd MaterialAZ Winter School (location: Biosphere 2, AZ), continuing his annual contribution to the program. The session focused on how materials science and engineering principles enable innovation in healthcare. 

We recently hosted students from Desert Christian High School for an outreach visit focused on nature-inspired materials research. During the visit, students toured our laboratory and learned how we design innovative biomolecular and polymeric materials inspired by natural systems to enhance human health. 

Thank you to Dr. Young Hyun Noh and Khadija Swadi for leading the lab tour and engaging with the students.

Read the BIO5 feature HERE 

Our paper, “Rational Design of Artificial Protein Platform for the Efficacy of Genetically Fused Functional Peptides,” has been published in Advanced Functional Materials. 

Congratulations to all team members for this achievement and especially to Fathima and Younghyun for their hard work. We also deeply appreciate the tremendous efforts and collaboration from Dr. Anne Wertheimer and her student Lauren, whose contributions made this work possible.