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Kim Lab
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Kim Lab studies biomedical microsystems, applying micro technology to medicine.
AboutAbout the lab
Evolving micro technology into medicine
Kim Lab studies biomedical microsystems: very small devices that analyze blood, cells, and other samples.
By combining microfluidics, integrated circuits, biotechnology, and informatics, the lab builds devices with many tiny reaction chambers arranged in an array.
A distinguishing feature is that the devices incorporate a variety of functions so that molecules, cells, and other targets can be handled one by one.
The lab applies these devices mainly to personalized medicine, in particular to liquid biopsy for cancer diagnosis and prognosis.
Key terms
- Microfluidics
- Technology for handling very small volumes of liquid by flowing and mixing them inside extremely narrow channels
- Liquid biopsy
- A testing method that analyzes blood or other body fluids to determine whether cancer is present and what state it is in
- DNA nanotechnology
- Technology that builds nanoscale structures and mechanisms by exploiting the property that DNA binds only to specific complementary partners
ResearchResearch themes
The lab develops microsystems for biomedicine by combining microfluidics, integrated circuits, biotechnology, and informatics. Its research is organized into four themes: Advanced Microsystems, Electrochemical Nanosensors, DNA Nanotechnology, and Liquid Biopsy.
*Illustrative imageAdvanced Microsystems
The lab arranges elements that detect light photon by photon at the bottom of microchannels. Using them, it develops a device that finds rare cancer cells in a cell population, and a device that traps cells one by one in tiny wells to analyze their contents.
*Illustrative imageElectrochemical Nanosensors
The lab uses nanoscale electrochemical sensors to analyze biological substances without labels. Its research covers sensors that distinguish cancer cells one cell at a time and sensors that measure substances exchanged between cells.
*Illustrative imageDNA Nanotechnology
The lab uses the self-assembling property of DNA to develop DNA hydrogels that selectively capture cancer cells, and an enzyme-free method for detecting viral RNA with high sensitivity.
*Illustrative imageLiquid Biopsy
The lab develops devices that capture and analyze cancer cells, cancer cell clusters, and cancer-derived DNA in the blood of cancer patients, as well as a device that analyzes exosomes one by one, aiming for highly accurate liquid biopsy.
MembersFaculty
Kim Lab's members include staff such as faculty, researchers, and technical assistants, joint researchers from companies, and doctoral and master's students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorSoo Hyeon KimPublications ↗
- Project Associate Professor福場 辰洋
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Lab on a Chip ( )” National Institute of Standards and Technology / Public domain (cropped)
- Advanced Microsystems: “Microfluidics and microchips” Oregon State University / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Electrochemical Nanosensors: “Circular interdigitated electrodes with and without gold nanoparticle chemiresistor film” CSIRO Cooper / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- DNA Nanotechnology: “DNA Origami Triangular” Matthias A. Fenner / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Liquid Biopsy: “Carcinocythemia - malignant tumour cells in peripheral blood (cropped v1)” Ogura, Kanako; Amano, Maki; Matsumoto, Toshiharu; Sakaguchi, Asumi; Kosaka, Taiji ほか
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