Dr. Insook Kim is the head of the Radiochemistry Laboratory in ADRD, which supports the AIDS imaging Research Section in NIAID’s Division of Clinical Research. Kim holds a B.S. degree in pharmacy and an M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in biopharmacy from Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Clinical Center, NIH (1995-1997) and at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Georgetown University (1997-1999) and continued working at Georgetown University Medical Center through 2000. She moved to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH in 2001, where she studied the pharmacokinetics of drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, codeine, and nicotine. She started working at the Radiochemistry Laboratory in the AIDS imaging Research Section in 2010 and has developed the tracers for in vivo SPECT and PET Imaging studies of SIV/SHIV-infected nonhuman primates.
