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Young Chan Kim

BMBS BMedSci BSc MRes DPhil


Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow, PI, JRF Fellow, Lecturer in Medicine

I earned a BSc degree in Biochemistry from Imperial College London and completed my medical degrees (BMBS, BMedSci and MRes) from the University of Nottingham. I then spent few years working in junior doctor posts before coming to Oxford to start a DPhil in Clinical Medicine. My DPhil studies focused on vaccine development against arthropod-borne viruses supported by Innovate UK funding. I was awarded highly prestigious NDM Graduate Student Prize 2020 (Overall Prize Winner) for my overall performance during my DPhil at the Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM). Additionally, in 2021, I received an NIHR Oxford BRC grant to support my postdoctoral research and I was elected as a JRF Fellow at Wolfson College. I joined the Oxford Vaccine Group (OVG) as a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in 2021. 

In 2022, I was awarded the Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship to start my independent research on development of vaccines and therapeutics against emerging arboviruses. Between 2022 and 2023, I received MRC HIC-VAC and MRC IAA grants to develop serological assays against typhoid and paratyphoid fever, as well as the MLSTF grant to develop a vaccine against Chagas disease. 

Currently, I am a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow, a Principal Investigator (PI) at the Oxford Vaccine Group (OVG), a JRF Fellow at Wolfson College, a Lecturer in Medicine at Somerville College, and a medical doctor in Internal Medicine at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.