Director General,
Center for Vaccine Research
Kim, Sung-soon.

Director General,
Center for Vaccine Research
Kim, Sung-soon

Profile

• Education
  • Doctor of Science in Virus, Ewha Women’s University, Korea
• Career
  • Director, Division of AIDS tumor virus, KCDC
  • Director, Division of Vaccine Research, KCDC
  • Director, Division of Biopharmaceutical research, Medical Product Research Department, MFDS
  • Director, Division of Bacterial Disease Research, KCDC
  • Director, dCenter for Infectious Disease Research, KCDC

Major Research Field

• HIV/AIDS, HPV Virus Research
• Research on infectious diseases such as MERS/COVID-19, tuberculosis
• Infectious disease vaccine development research.

Performance

• Patent, Monoclonal antibodies of specifically binding to spike S1 protein of MERS-CoV(10-2007161, 2019.07.30.) and 20 others)
• Published, Factors Associated With Viral Load Kinetics of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus During the 2015 Outbreak in South Korea. J Infect Dis.(2021) and 100 others

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