Daniel Kim
Assistant Professor & Co-Chair UC Santa Cruz & NIH Liquid Biopsy Scientific Interest Group
Dr. Daniel Kim is an Assistant Professor at the University of California Santa Cruz, an Associate Member of the Stanford Canary Center, and a Research Scholar of the American Cancer Society. He is also Co-Chair of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Liquid Biopsy Scientific Interest Group and Co-Chair of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) RNA Task Force. His laboratory develops RNA liquid biopsy technology for precision oncology and cancer early detection. His research has been featured in Newsweek, Scientific American, and by the Director of the National Institutes of Health and has been recognized by awards from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences.
Seminars
- Utilizing nanopore sequencing to discover over 250,000 novel RNA biomarkers of precancer and cancer
- Training machine learning models using novel RNA features to classify precancer and cancer with near perfect sensitivity and specificity
- Discovering novel therapeutic targets and RNA biomarkers for precision oncology
