Carla Faith Bender Kim is a professor at the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School[1] and a Principal Investigator at the Stem Cell Program at Boston Children’s Hospital.
[2] She is also a Principal Faculty member at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute,[3] where she also serves as part of the Executive Committee.
Kim completed her postdoctoral training in the Tyler Jacks Laboratory at MIT (2006)[2] with the support of the Jane Coffin Childs Research Fellowship.
[5] During her time in the Jacks Lab, Kim discovered the first stem cell population in the adult mouse lung, bronchioalveolar stem cells (BASCs).
[15] Kim’s work and lab are supported by federal funding from the National Institutes of Health.