Jin-Soo Kim is an entrepreneur and a chemist-turned-biologist. He graduated from Seoul National University in 1987 with a major in chemistry. He earned a master’s degree in chemistry from Seoul National University in 1989 and a Ph. D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994. After postdoctoral training at Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, He came back to Seoul in 1997 to serve as a Principal Investigator at Samsung Biomedical Research Institute. In 1999, he co-founded a biotechnology company, ToolGen, Inc., focused on zinc finger technology, and served as CEO and CSO of ToolGen for the subsequent six years. He joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at Seoul National University in 2005. Jin-Soo Kim has published 40 research articles mostly on zinc finger technology, which include 3 papers in Nature Methods, 2 in Nature Biotechnology, and 4 in Genome Research, and filed 20 patent applications.       Jin-Soo Kim is an entrepreneur and a chemist-turned-biologist. He graduated from Seoul National University in 1987 with a major in chemistry. He earned a master’s degree in chemistry from Seoul National University in 1989 and a Ph. D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994. After postdoctoral training at Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, He came back to Seoul in 1997 to serve as a Principal Investigator at Samsung Biomedical Research Institute. In 1999, he co-founded a biotechnology company, ToolGen, Inc., focused on zinc finger technology, and served as CEO and CSO of ToolGen for the subsequent six years. He joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at Seoul National University in 2005. Jin-Soo Kim has published 40 research articles mostly on zinc finger technology, which include 3 papers in Nature Methods, 2 in Nature Biotechnology, and 4 in Genome Research, and filed 20 patent applications.      

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