Dr. Peter S. Kim
Education	Ph.D., Biochemistry
Alma mater	Stanford University Cornell University
Employer	Merck & Co., Inc.
Known for	Discovering how proteins cause membranes to fuse, a central feature of all life
Title	President, Merck Research Laboratories
Website Dr. Peter S. Kim Research Papers

Contents 1 Biography 2 Awards 3 Current Board Memberships and Other Affiliations 4 Elected Memberships 5 Service 6 References

[edit] Biography

Peter S. Kim is president^[1] of Merck Research Laboratories (MRL)^[2]. Dr. Kim was promoted to this position in January 2003. In this role he oversees all of Merck's drug and vaccine research and development activities.

Dr. Kim, a Korean-American, joined the Company in 2001 as executive vice president, Research and Development for MRL.

Dr. Kim trained as a structural biologist. He studied at Stanford University, where he earned his doctorate in biochemistry, and Cornell University, graduating with distinction^[3] in chemistry. While at Stanford, he was also a Medical Scientist Training Program Fellow.

Later, Dr. Kim worked as a Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and was a Member of the Whitehead Institute and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Dr. Kim has a special interest in HIV / AIDS research and designed compounds that stop membrane fusion by the AIDS virus, thereby preventing it from infecting cells. Dr. Kim also served as a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Advisory Committee to develop an AIDS vaccine.^[4]

His research and work in improving human health has earned Dr. Kim numerous awards and other recognition. Some of these honors are noted in the following sections.

You can download Dr. Kim's full CV here.

[edit] Awards

National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology
Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry
The Hans Neurath Award of the Protein Society
Samsung Foundation Ho-Am Prize in Basic Science

[edit] Current Board Memberships and Other Affiliations

Member, Council, Institute of Medicine
Member, Board of Directors, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Member, Board of Trustees, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Member, Council, Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise

[edit] Elected Memberships

Member, National Academy of Sciences
Member, Institute of Medicine
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
Fellow, Biophysical Society
Member, Korean Academy of Science and Technology

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MIT Corporation, Visiting Committee, Department of Biology, MIT
External Life Sciences Advisory Council, Cornell University
Advisory Council, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integative Genomics, Princeton University
HARC (HIV Accessory and Regulatory Complexes) Scientific Advisory Board, University of California, San Francisco

[edit] References