Academic History
Sung-Bae Kim, MD, PhD is a Professor of Medicine at the Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea. He received his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctor of Medicine at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. He completed his clinical training in internal medicine at Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, South Korea, and undertook a fellowship at the Division of Hematology-Oncology at the Asan Medical Center, where he is now a Professor. He also studied as a fellow in 2000 at the Experimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD.
From 2018 to 2024, Prof. Kim served as Head of the Breast Cancer Center at Asan Medical Center, he also served on the panel for Advanced Breast Cancer and was the scientific co-chair for ESMO Breast 2021-2023.
Speaking on molecularly driven immunotherapy and early drug development
Prof. Kim specializes in breast cancer, esophageal, head and neck cancer, gynecological cancer, and cell therapy, with research interests in tumor immunotherapy, early drug development, disease management, and imaging at the molecular level. He has been the principal investigator on multiple clinical trials alongside his clinician and professor responsibilities. With a focus on high-risk, metastasizing cancers such as HER2-negative breast cancer, Prof. Kim’s recent clinical trials have investigated the efficacy of novel treatment strategies in patients with treatment-resistant cancer types. Prof. Kim also explores immunotherapy efficacy across cancer types, prognostic factors, and imaging techniques, with the intention of bettering personalized treatment strategies.
