In addition to Department of Pharmacy, Kim is affiliated in three other departments of Yonsei; Integrated Science and Engineering Division (ISED), of Underwood International College (UIC), Graduate Program of Integrative Biotechnology and Translational Medicine (IBTM), and Graduate Program of Industrial Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Kim's work focuses on pathology, therapeutics, and diagnostics of Alzheimer's disease by using Chemical Biology as a research tool.

A significant effort of the Kim laboratory in recent years has been to identify small molecules that control protein misfolding and cognitive impairments of Alzheimer's disease.

Such research achievements in taurine derivatives reversing Alzheimer pathology[8][9] and Alzheimer blood tests detecting plasma amyloid-beta[10][11][12][13][14] contributed to rank Korea Institute of Science and Technology #6 among The World's Most Innovative Research Institutions, selected by Reuters, in 2016[15] and 2017.

[16] His recent review article[17] about fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease published in Experimental & Molecular Medicine was selected in Springer Nature 2019 Highlights.