Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Health Science
New York Medical College
United States of America
Tel: 914-594-4259
Dr. Hong Duck Kim is working as an Associate Professor in Environmental Health Science Department at New York Medical College, USA. Dr. Kim earned PhD degree study on multidrug resistance in the cancer chemotherapy under the supervision of Professor T. Tsuruo at the University of Tokyo (1996). He worked on the molecular characterization of the postsynaptic density protein PSD-95 during postdoctoral fellow at National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology, (AIST, Japan1997-1999). His profound effort and accomplishment regarding synapse turnover in the neural network of hippocampus was fruited in the publication on Nature Neuroscience (1999). During post-doctoral training in USA, Dr. Kim worked in the study of the immunology of pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines in elderly at the University of Rochester. He subsequently moved to the field of neuropathology where he did contribution to prevention Alzheimer disease using DNA vaccine and/or clearance of unfolded protein using microglia cell mediated machinery against amyloid beta protein or delivered potential neutralizing antigen by gene therapy such as adenoviral (AdV) or AAV-vector based at University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of Illinois at Peoria.
