Contact
Pora Kim
Assistant Professor
School of Biomedical Informatics
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Address: 7000 Fannin St. UCT Suite 600, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Phone: 713-500-3636
Email: pora.kim@uth.tmc.edu
Pages
Faculty page in MSBMI: https://sbmi.uth.edu/faculty-and-staff/pora-kim.htm
LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pora-kim-a8a486141/
Education
Ph.D. in Life Science (Bioinformatics), 2013
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
M.S. in Life Science (Bioinformatics), 2005
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
B.S. in Chemistry, 2003
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Work experiences
Tenure Track Assistant Professor, 2020-present
School of Biomedical Informatics
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, TX
Research Assistant Professor, 2018-2020
School of Biomedical Informatics
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, TX
Postdoctoral researcher, 2016-2018
School of Biomedical Informatics
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, TX
Postdoctoral researcher, 2014-2015
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Postdoctoral researcher, 2013-2014
Ewha Research Center for Systems Biology
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Researcher, 2007-2008
Bioinformatics Team
Macrogen Inc., Seoul, South Korea
Researcher, 2006-2007
Bioinformatics Team
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, South Korea
Teaching
BMI 5352 Statistical Methods in Biomedical Informatics
BMI 6319 Data Analysis for Scientific Research in Biomedical Informatics
BMI 7320 Topics for Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Discovery (Guest Lecture)
BMI 6000 Practicum in Biomedical Informatics
BMI 6002 Directed Study in Biomedical Informatics
Awards
NIH 1R35GM138184 (Kim, P), 2020-2025
Title: Functional annotation of new genes aided by deep learning
Role: PI
NIH 1R35GM138184 -2S (Kim, P), 2021-2022
Title: Functional annotation of new genes aided by deep learning
Role: PI
Hi Seoul Science Scholarship, 2009-2010,
Seoul Scholarship Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Outstanding Poster, 2009,
Chem-Bio Informatics Society, Japan and Korean Society for Bioinformatics and System
Biology, Busan, Korea
Excellent Poster, 2004,
The 3rd Annual Conference of the Korean Society for Bioinformatics, 2004, Seoul, Korea
Editorial/Reviewer Board member
Scientific Reports by Springer Nature (2025-present): Editorial Board
Biology of Sex Differences by Springer Nature (2025-present): Editorial Board
Functional & Integrative Genomics by Springer Nature (2024-2025): Associate Editor
Computational Genomics of Frontiers in Genetics, in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, and in Plant Science (2023-2025): Associate Editor
Frontiers in Genetics and in Bioinformatics (2022-2025): Review Editor
Genes (2021): Guest Editor
International Journal of Molecular Science (2021): Topic Editor
Invited Journal Ad hoc referee
Reviewer of Nature Communications, Nucleic Acids Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Clinical and Translational Medicine, Cell Systems, Journal of Translational Medicine, Bioinformatics, Cancer Medicine, Frontiers in Genetics, Genomics, Communications Biology, BMC Cancer, BMC Genomics, STAR protocols, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, Cancers, Frontiers in Oncology, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, PLOS Computational Biology, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Functional & Integrative Genomics, IEEE, Clinical and Translational Medicine, Cancer Letters, Clinical and Translational Discovery, and iScience.