Junhyong Kim is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Endowed Professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of over eighty published scientific papers.
He received his PhD in Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University in 1992 under the supervision of Lev Ginzburg and Dan Dykhuizen.
Junhyong Kim's honors include the Sloan Foundation Young Investigator Award, Yale Faculty Award, Visiting Fellow at the Newton Institute (Cambridge University) and IHES (France), Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Aging,[2] and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
[5] After his move to Penn, his research has concentrated on comparative functional genomics, especially gene expression and RNA biology in two model systems.
[6][7] In the other area, he is working with James Eberwine to understand the RNA biology of mammalian neurons and the evolution of individual cell characteristics.