Sung-Wuk Kim

Dr. Sung-wuk Kim has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) since the founding of ImmunoMet Therapeutics, a spinoff of HanAll Biopharma in July 2015. Dr. Kim was previously the CEO of HanAll Biopharma, and during his 12 years in various executive positions, he led a variety of new drug development programs including autoimmune diseases, fibrosis and metabolic diseases. He also pioneered an OXPHOS inhibitor research platform that is designed to target cancer metabolism, which has produced ImmunoMet’s lead drug candidate, IM156. Dr. Kim is an entrepreneur and accomplished inventor, who has made significant contributions to advance drug development, receiving more than 30 patents in a broad range of areas which include formulation, biologics and small molecule drugs. Dr. Kim has also currently served on the Board of Directors of HanAll Biopharma since 2003 and as Chair of the R&D Committee of Daewoong Pharma Group since 2015. Previously, he served on the Boards of Directors of Humasis Inc, a diagnostics kit development company from 2002 to 2015 and Hangen Biotech, a RSV vaccine development company from 2002 to 2004. Before devoting his career to drug development, Dr. Kim was the founder of an IT entrepreneurial company, Freechal Inc, first XML platform internet community service provider, in 1999 and served on its Board of Directors until 2002. Dr. Kim earned his Doctorate of Dental Surgery from Yonsei University in Korea.