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Kimberly Hyunjung Kim

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Sr. Principal Scientist at Pfizer
📍 San Diego, California, United States

Kimberly is a Senior Principal Scientist at Pfizer, specializing in preclinical cancer research and epigenetics. An innovative cancer biologist with a Ph. D. from USC, she has extensive industry experience leading multi-disciplinary teams in early-stage drug discovery, focusing on identifying novel cancer targets and developing small-molecule inhibitors.

During her postdoctoral fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard, she studied the role of specific chromatin remodeling complexes in human cancer transformation.

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Experience
21 Years
Current Role
Sr. Principal Scientist
Job Level
Senior
Location
San Diego, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Kimberly shows up

Curious
Assertive
Value Driven

They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing. They are generally good communicators and can be hard to convince. They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting information.

Priorities

Topics Kimberly cares about

Epigenetic Drug Discovery
Leads projects at Pfizer to identify and develop inhibitors targeting epigenetic regulators and cell cycle pathways for cancer therapy.
Cancer Target Identification
Utilizes in vitro and in vivo functional genomics, including RNAi/CRISPR screens, to discover novel cancer targets and resistance mechanisms.
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Career

Work history

10-2024
Sr. Principal Scientist
Pfizer
5-2018 - 10-2024
Principal Scientist
Pfizer
11-2015 - 4-2018
Sr. Scientist
Pfizer
11-2011 - 11-2015
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Univrsity
8-2005 - 8-2011
Graduate Student
University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
In the press

Media appearances

Elastic as a Fundamental Core to Pfizer’s Scientific Data Cloud. Featured in Elastic (Elasticon 2019 – Boston)
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Education
2005 - 2011
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
USC
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