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Hyunsuk Shim has emerged as one of Georgia’s most promising biomedical researchers and has been recognized as a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar. She has contributed groundbreaking insights into the involvement of chemokine receptor modulation in cancer metastasis, establishing her as a global authority in working with CXCR4.Dr. Shim is an Assistant Professor at the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University, where she has been on faculty since 2002. She is a director of the Winship Cancer Institute Undergraduate Research Program, giving Emory students opportunities to obtain cancer-related research experience. She is a professor of Molecular Systems and Pharmacology Graduate Program in Pharmacology Department.As co-director of the High-Throughput Drug Screening Center at Emory University, Dr. Shim supervises and develops assays for automated compound screening with robotic instrumentations. She also volunteers her time with the Institutional Animal Use and Care Committee, which ensures the humane use of animals in preclinical research throughout Emory University. In addition, Dr. Shim serves as a study section reviewer for the Susan G. Komen Foundation for Breast Cancer Research Grants.Dr Shim earned her doctorate in biophysics at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She followed this with two post-doctoral training appointments at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, first in the department of Radiology and later in the department of Medicine. Through this extensive hands-on training, she acquired a diverse range of skills as a molecular oncologist with a specialty in diagnostic imaging. | 