UMaine Professor Carol Kim New Head of Biomedical Sciences Graduate School
Contact: Carol Kim, (207) 581-2803
ORONO University of Maine microbiologist Carol H. Kim has been named the director of UMaine’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS).
Kim, an associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, has expertise in molecular virology and host response to infectious disease. In her current research, she uses zebrafish as model organism for studying the effects of bacterial and viral pathogens and environmental toxicants such as arsenic on a host’s ability to fight infection.
Kim joined the UMaine faculty in 1998 and has a cooperating appointment in the School of Marine Sciences. She already has played a leading role in GSBS management through her work with its admissions committee. As GSBS director, Kim reports to Dan Sandweiss, dean and associate provost for UMaine graduate studies.
“Already, Carol is putting into motion a series of plans to move GSBS to the next stage of success,” Sandweiss says. “I have every confidence that the program will take off under Carol