Mindy Kim

Metabolism, stem cells, immunology

Research Experience

Medical College of Wisconsin, 2023-Present
Advisor: Ze Zheng, PhD
Project: Connections between fibrinolysis and lipid metabolism in cardiometabolic diseases

University of Pennsylvania, 2019-2021
Advisor: Mitchell A. Lazar, MD, PhD
Project: Individual-specific functional epigenomics reveals genetic determinants of adverse metabolic effects of glucocorticoids

Johns Hopkins University, 2018-2019
Advisor: Neal S. Fedarko, PhD
Project: Role of autoantibodies against angiotensin II type 1 receptors in age-related disease progression and late-life decline

UT Southwestern Medical Center, Summer of 2017
Advisor: Steven A. Vernino, MD, PhD
Project: Role of autoantibodies against the NMDA receptor in relation to psychosis induced by autoimmune encephalitis 

Publications

Kim M, Zheng Z. Walking the VLDL tightrope in cardiometabolic diseases. Trends Endocrinol Metab. 2025 Mar;36(3):278-291. doi: 10.1016/j.tem.2024.07.020. Epub 2024 Aug 26. PMID: 39191606; PMCID: PMC11861388.

Chen V, Zhang J, Chang J, Beg MA, Vick L, Wang D, Gupta A, Wang Y, Zhang Z, Dai W, Kim M, Song S, Pereira D, Zheng Z, Sodhi K, Shapiro JI, Silverstein RL, Malarkannan S, Chen Y. CD36 restricts lipid-associated macrophages accumulation in white adipose tissues during atherogenesis. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2024 Aug 2;11:1436865. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2024.1436865. PMID: 39156133; PMCID: PMC11327822.

Richter HJ, Hauck AK, Batmanov K, Inoue SI, So BN, Kim M, Emmett MJ, Cohen RN, Lazar MA. Balanced control of thermogenesis by nuclear receptor corepressors in brown adipose tissue. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Aug 16;119(33):e2205276119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2205276119. Epub 2022 Aug 8. PMID: 35939699; PMCID: MC9388101.

Hu W, Jiang C, Kim M, Xiao Y, Richter HJ, Guan D, Zhu K, Krusen BM, Roberts AN, Miller J, Steger DJ, Lazar MA. Isoform-specific functions of PPARγ in gene regulation and metabolism. Genes Dev. 2022 Mar 1;36(5-6):300-312. doi: 10.1101/gad.349232.121. Epub 2022 Mar 10. PMID: 35273075; PMCID: PMC8973844.

Hu W, Jiang C, Kim M, Yang W, Zhu K, Guan D, Lv W, Xiao Y, Wilson JR, Rader DJ, Pui CH, Relling MV, Lazar MA. Individual-specific functional epigenomics reveals genetic determinants of adverse metabolic effects of glucocorticoids. Cell Metab. 2021 Aug 3;33(8):1592-1609.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2021.06.004. Epub 2021 Jul 6. PMID: 34233159; PMCID: PMC8340270.

Xiao Y, Kim M, Lazar MA. Nuclear receptors and transcriptional regulation in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Mol Metab. 2021 Aug;50:101119. doi: 10.1016/j.molmet.2020.101119. Epub 2020 Nov 18. PMID: 33220489; PMCID: PMC8324695.

Blackburn KM, Ivleva EI, Weir RA, Kim M, Hopkins SC, Hudgens-Haney ME, Keedy SK, Gershon ES, Sweeney JA, Keshavan MS, Pearlson GD, Clementz BA, Tamminga CA, Vernino S. NMDA receptor antibody seropositivity in psychosis: A pilot study from the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network for Intermediate Phenotypes (B-SNIP). Schizophr Res. 2020 Apr;218:318-320. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2020.01.004. Epub 2020 Jan 14. PMID: 31952910.

Meeting Abstracts

Kim M, Osinski K, Zheng Z. Investigating the role of bile acid sequestrants on sex-specific differences in lipid and lipoprotein profiles of hyperlipidemic patients. Advancement of Women in Science and Medicine Symposium, Milwaukee, WI. March 2025. [Poster]

Kim M, Osinski K, Zheng Z. Investigating the impact of bile acid sequestrants on lipoprotein profiles of hyperlipidemic patients. Gordon Research Conference Lipoprotein Metabolism, Waterville Valley, NH. June 2024. [Poster]

Kim M, Osinski K, Zheng Z. Investigating the lipid-lowering potential of Dabigatran. Don S. Fredrickson Lipid Research Conference, Nashville, TN. Sept 2023. [Poster]

General Interests

Singing, running, swimming, hiking, cooking, and exploring different genres of music