Research Interests: diabetic retinopathy, retinal detachment, various macular diseases; VEGF traps intravitreal injection; drug induced outer retinal degeneration animal models in the rabbit, dog, mini-pig, and non-human primate (cynomolgus monkey) using vitrectomy and drug exposure

He graduated Korea University College of Medicine and took Ophthalmology resident training and retina fellow training in Korea University Guro Hospital. He was appointed as assistant professor at 2008 in the Korea University and has become professor since 2017 in the same university.

As an active retinal surgeon and clinician, he is a retina section chief of Korea University Guro Hospital. He performed more than 4200 cases of vitrectomy and buckling surgery since 2006 for diabetic retinopathy, retinal detachment, and various macular diseases. He has been involved in the various international multicenter clinical studies and currently actively participated in the six multicenter clinical studies including VEGF traps intravitreal injection (Bayer, Samsung bioepis) and others.

As a researcher, he has published more than 80 SCI(E) papers regarding retinal diseases and basic research. He visited Institute for Ophthalmic Research of Tuebingen University as a visiting scholar and participated in the animal experiment during Aug 2014~Aug 2015 under Prof E. Zrenner. At 2016, he received the national research grant for individual researcher regarding retinal prosthesis development and recruited the researchers who was excellent in his or her own research field in Korea for retinal prosthesis development. After he and his team successfully won the competition for the national research grant for retinal prosthesis development ($4,000,000) at 2017, the team concentrated on the retinal prosthesis R&D. In his team, Professor Kim’s role is to perform animal experiment to test efficacy and safety of the implant. For his role, Prof Seong-Woo Kim has developed various kinds of drug induced outer retinal degeneration animal models in the rabbit, dog, mini-pig, and non-human primate (cynomolgus monkey) using vitrectomy and drug exposure. 

At 2020 he received another national research grant for individual researcher regarding drug induced animal model development in non-human primate. Now he is a deputy director of animal research center of Korea University Guro Hospital and an editorial board member of Scientic reports journal and Journal of retina (official journal of Korean retina society). 

Editorial Board Member of AES
Terms of Appointment: December 2021 - November, 2023

Updated on November 26, 2021