Tae Wook Kim Email & Phone Number

Madison, WI, US

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Wisconsin, United States

• Lead chemical biology projects to study the ligand-receptor interaction and the trafficking profiles of a Class B G protein-coupled Receptor, Parathyroid Hormone Receptor Type 1. Generate manuscript for journal.
• Independently designed and executed various mammalian cell-based in vitro assays using cellbiology techniques such as BRET, luminescent reporter, protein complementation, and confocalmicroscopy.
• Synthesized DNA constructs for proteins of interest using molecular biology techniques such as primerdesign, PCR, gel electrophoresis, restriction cloning, and Gibson assembly.
• Synthesized peptide analogs for various projects including multiple GPCR and immunology using solidphase peptide synthesis.
• Purified peptide analogs using RP-HPLC and characterized using UPLC, MALDI-ToF, and UV-Vis.
• Analyzed potency, affinity and other types of data acquired from in vitro assays using analysissoftware such as GraphPad Prism and Excel, then calculated the statistical differences betweensamples.

Urbana, Illinois, United States

• Spearheaded the organic synthesis of photoacoustic chromophores to create a panel of different photophysical properties.
• Project: Synthesize small-molecule dual-modality probes for photoacoustic imaging.
• Designed and set up organic reactions to synthesize target molecules with photoacoustic properties.
• Purified product using column chromatography and characterized them with 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, LCMS.
• Confirmed the in vivo applicability of the probes by IV injecting them into mouse models andreconstructed 3D images acquired from the photoacoustic tomographer.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Chemistry

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemistry