Hyungsoon Im's Biography

Hyungsoon Im, Assistant Professor, Center for Systems Biology, Mass General Hospital (MGH)/Harvard Medical School

Hyungsoon Im is Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and a Core Faculty at the Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. His research aims to bridge engineering and medicine fields by developing next-generation diagnostic sensing technologies to better understand the makeup of human diseases and changes associated with disease progression and therapy. He has expertise in plasmonics, photonics, nanofabrication, spectroscopy, imaging, and microfluidics, with a good understanding of how these skills can be integrated and utilized for clinical applications. His lab has been actively working with clinical investigators both in and outside of MGH to validate technologies developed in his lab for clinical samples and apply them in clinical settings, which has been critical for translating and commercializing new diagnostic technologies for patient care in clinical settings.