Brian S. Kim, MD

Brian S. Kim is Director of the Mark Lebwohl Center for Neuroinflammation and Sensation at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His laboratory focuses on understanding how the peripheral nervous system senses and shapes inflammation in tissues such as the skin, lung, and gut. He has >120 peer-reviewed publications, multiple NIH grants, designed pivotal clinical trials towards FDA-approved treatments, and is an inventor of itch technologies. 

Articles by Brian S. Kim, MD

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A Chronic Itch: Burrowing Beneath the Skin

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June 2025, Issue 1

Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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Seeing and Sorting with Confidence

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Streamlining Microbial Quality Control Testing

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