Dr. Hyunsook Kim

Ph.D.: University of Georgia, Food and Nutrition, U.S.A.

M.S.: Kyungpook National University, Biochemistry, South Korea

B.A.:  Yeungnam University, Applied Microbiology, South Korea

Hyunsook Kim is an expert in the development of new functional natural food ingredients as an effective means of managing weight and decreasing risk factors for obesity and related metabolic disease. She has studied effects probiotic lactic acid bacteria isolated from fermented drink on obesity and adds value in byproduct waste from fruit and vegetable processing and also potentiates their effectiveness after combined with probiotic lactic acid from fermented foods. Using high-throughput techniques including nutrigenomics, metabolomics, metagenomics, and biochemical analysis, she is trying to determine novel pathways and bioactive components involved in intestinal microbiota, innate immunity, inflammation, intestinal permeability, lipid metabolism, gut-derived hormones, adipose-derived hormones.