Sung-bae Kim MD, PhD

Dr. Sung-Bae Kim is a Professor at Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan, Seoul, Korea. He attained his MD and PhD from Kyunghee Univerisity Medical School in 1987 and 1996 respectively, completed his clinical training in internal medicine at Ewha Womans University, and undertook a clinical fellowship at the Division of Hematology-Oncology at Asan Medical Center. He additionally studied at the Experimental Transplantation and Immunology, National Cancer Institute, USA in 2000 as a postdoctoral fellow.

Dr. Kim is a member of many steering committees in international clinical trials, and several breast cancer societies, including the Korean Cancer Association where he has served as a board member and Vice President, and ASCO, AACR and ESMO. He has also served as the Vice President of APCC from 2016-2017.

His research interests include tumor immunotherapy, molecular imaging, early drug development, and clinical management of head and neck cancer, esophageal cancer, and breast cancer. He has authored several book chapters and written over 300 articles in renowned, peer-reviewed, oncology journals, and has been the principal investigator on several clinical trials. Dr. Kim is currently Head of the Breast Cancer Center at Asan Medical Center and has served as scientific co-chair for ESMO Breast 2021-2023.