Kang Kim, PhD

Dr. Kim directs the Multi-Modality Biomedical Ultrasound Imaging Laboratory (http://www.pitt.edu/~kangkim/) at the Center for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics (http://www.imagingtherapeutics.pitt.edu/) – home to research focused on basic science, pre-clinical studies and clinical translation of medical instrumentation, signal/image processing algorithms, and imaging contrast/therapeutic agents. He also directs the Small Animal Ultrasonography Core (https://www.vmi.pitt.edu/ultrasonography/index.html) at the Vascular Medicine Institute.

Dr. Kim earned his bachelor’s in educational physics at Seoul National University, his master’s in physics at the University of Pierre & Marie Curie (Paris 6) in Paris, and then his doctorate in acoustics at Pennsylvania State University. After completing his PhD, Dr. Kim became a postdoctoral research fellow and then a member of the research faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Kim’s research seeks to develop and translate state-of-the-art noninvasive ultrasound imaging technologies to (1) improve disease diagnosis, (2) guide therapeutic strategies, and (3) evaluate therapeutic efficacy. His research emphasis is on development and application of multi-modality imaging systems that are based on a fundamental understanding of how sound and light interact with soft tissues, and can characterize the structural, mechanical, compositional properties of tissues and organs and their underlying biological activities at the cellular level.