Peter S. Kim, an associate professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge who also holds appointments as a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and an associate investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has recently been named the recipient of awards from two national professional societies.
Kim's research focuses on the flow of information in biological systems. "We know about DNA--and in some cases RNA--storing genetic information, being transcribed into RNA, ...