Young Chan Kim

I am a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow, a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at Wolfson College, a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, and an NHS doctor.

I completed a BSc degree in Biochemistry from Imperial College London and 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 (Somerville College). I have always been very keen on combining clinical medicine with a career in research. 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 degree at the Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM) and a NIHR Oxford BRC Grant to support my research as a Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2022, I was awarded the Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship to start my independent research on vaccine development against emerging arboviruses at the NDM. I am now a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow, a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at the Wolfson College, a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, and a doctor in Internal Medicine at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.