김빛내리 金빛내리
Life scientist in RNA biology; director of the IBS Center for RNA Research and professor at Seoul National University
| Life | 1969 |
| Era | 현대 |
| Clan | 연안 김씨 |
Life & career
Kim V. Narry (b. 1969) is a South Korean life scientist of the Yeonan Kim clan, born in Yeonggwang, South Jeolla. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in microbiology at Seoul National University and a PhD in biochemistry at Oxford, then worked at the University of Pennsylvania and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
She has taught at Seoul National University since 2004 and has directed the IBS Center for RNA Research since 2012. She became a member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2014 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2021, and is described as the first to analyze the RNA transcriptome of the COVID-19 virus.
Her honors include the 2008 L'Oreal-UNESCO award, the 2009 Ho-Am Prize in medicine and the 2013 Korea Best Scientist award; Wikipedia also lists the 2026 Nakasone Prize of the Human Frontier Science Program.
Research Career
After her Oxford doctorate and postdoctoral work in the US she set up a lab at Seoul National University and has led the IBS RNA research center since 2012.
Awards
She is listed as winning the 2008 L'Oreal-UNESCO award, the 2009 Ho-Am Prize and the 2013 Korea Best Scientist award, among others.
Grave
Living person.