Sonia Nan Kim

Sonia Nan Kim is a neuroscientist working to develop new RNA tools and therapeutics for neurodegenerative disease. Sonia Nan received her B.S. in molecular biology, and M.S. in biology from the University of California - San Diego with Dr. Lawrence S.B. Goldstein. She received her Ph.D. in Biological and Biomedical Sciences from Harvard University. In her doctoral research with Dr. Christopher A. Walsh at Boston Children’s Hospital, Sonia Nan used somatic mutations as lineage markers to generate a comprehensive map of clonal structure of the human cortex in relation to major neuronal cell types and major cytoarchitectonic regions across the brain. She is now a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Howard Y. Chang’s group at Stanford University, studying RNA biology – specifically circular RNAs – to address changes in immunomodulatory activity in neurodegenerative disease.