Young-In Kim

Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada

Young-In Kim

Academic positions:
- Associate Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences
- Staff Gastroenterologist, St. Michael's Hospital

All industry positions (in last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
Dr. Kim's research focuses on several aspects of nutrition and cancer (colorectal, breast, prostate) at the molecular, cellular and translational levels, including prevention, early detection and screening, development and validation of surrogate end point biomarkers, molecular genetics and epigenetics, pharmacogenetics, and nutrigenomics/nutrigenetics using animal models, cell culture systems and human subjects. His research program has been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, US Army Breast Cancer Research Program, American Institute for Cancer Research, Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, International Life Sciences Institute, and other peer-reviewed funding agencies.

Any other information:
Dr. Kim is an active member of many clinical and research organizations, including the American Gastroenterological Association, American Association for Cancer Research, Canadian Association of Gastroenterology, and Canadian Society for Clinical Nutrition. He is the treasurer and an executive council member of the Canadian Society for Clinical Nutrition and a member of the Research Committee of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology. He serves as an internal and external reviewer for several peer-reviewed funding agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, California Cancer Research Program, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Medical Research Council of Austria, Dutch Cancer Society, Canadian Association of Gastroenterology, and Canada Research Chairs Program. He is appointed to the editorial board of Nutrition Reviews and Nutrition in Clinical Care.

Dr. Kim has received many awards and honors, including the University of Toronto Department of Medicine William Goldie Prize and Travel Award (2004), the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Young Investigator Award (2003), the Ferring International Gastroenterology Research Award in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research (2001), the Medical Research Council of Canada Scholarship (1997 - 2002), the International Life Sciences Institute North America Future Leader Award (1997), and the Medical Research Council of Canada Research Fellowship (1993 - 1995).

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Gastroenterology & Hepatology > Gastrointestinal Cancers (since 06 June 2007)

Links

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All recent recommendations

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  A temporal association between folic acid fortification and an increase in colorectal cancer rates may be illuminating important biological principles: a hypothesis.
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• 9.0
  Folic acid for the prevention of colorectal adenomas: a randomized clinical trial.
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