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Dr Yanghee Kim

Sr Research Fellow (Anni Fellowship) Med

Accepting applications from PhD students.

Connect with Yanghee

Email: Yanghee.Kim@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 2381204292

ORCID

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About

Dr Yang-Hee Kim is an Anniversary Fellow in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton. She is internationally recognised for her interdisciplinary expertise spanning materials chemistry, cell biology, and translational engineering. Her research focuses on developing bioinspired and immunomodulatory biomaterials to promote skeletal tissue regeneration and to modulate diseased microenvironments such as bone cancer.

During her PhD studies at Kyoto University (Japan), Dr Kim investigated immune modulation through biomaterial-assisted drug delivery, enhancing immune-cell recruitment and phenotype regulation at tissue defect sites. Since joining the Bone and Joint Research Group at the Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine in 2016, she has contributed to the design, chemical modification, and biological evaluation of scaffolds and hydrogels through in vitro and in vivo studies. She also worked as a product and process development scientist with Renovos Biologics, a regenerative-medicine spin-out company, helping to translate academic biomaterial technologies toward clinical application.

Dr Kim pioneered the development of human bone-derived extracellular matrix (ECM) hydrogels, establishing a first-in-kind platform that replicates the native bone matrix and enables advanced in vitro and ex vivo models for skeletal regeneration and osteosarcoma research. Her work has been published in leading journals such as Nature Communications, Biomaterials, Biofabrication, Bone, Advanced Healthcare Materials, and Bioactive Materials.

A hallmark of Dr Kim’s career is her strong commitment to international collaboration. She has co-led multidisciplinary research consortia across the UK, Europe, and Asia, supported by major funding from the Royal Society, MRC–AMED (UK–Japan), MRC–NRF (UK–Korea), BBSRC (UK–Hong Kong), MTF Biologics (UK–Italy–Austria), and the Hannah’s Willberry Wonder Pony Foundation.

Her current research aims to engineer immunomodulatory ECM hydrogels for skeletal tissue regeneration and multifunctional biomaterial systems that integrate immune, stem-cell, and tumour biology to enable personalised therapies and accelerate bone repair.

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