Junhyong Kim is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Biology. He is also secondary professor of computer and information science, the co-director of Penn Program in Single Cell Biology, and former co-director of Penn Genomics Institute and former chair of the Department of Biology. He is an expert in genomics, single cell biology, mathematical and computational biology, and evolutionary genetics. His current research interests include using single cell technologies to generate a cell atlas of the human female reproductive system, single cell analysis for kidney regenerative medicine, development of novel genomic technologies and data analysis algorithms.

He is one of the pioneers of the field of single cell biology as well as algebraic statistics for biological data analysis. He is the recipient of the Sloan Foundation Young Investigator Award, Yale Junior and Senior Faculty Award, J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship, and Ellison Foundation Senior Scholar Award. Kim’s other honors include Visiting Fellow of the Newton Institute at Cambridge, Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and Visiting Fellow at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifique.