Hyeong-Reh Kim, Ph.D., professor of the Wayne State University School of Medicine's Department of Pathology, has been appointed a member of the Tumor Progression and Metastasis Study Section of the Center for Scientific Review of the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Kim will serve as a member of the study section through June 30, 2020.

"I am honored and humbled to be appointed as a member of the NIH Tumor Progression and Metastasis Study Section," Dr. Kim said. "I look forward to working with my colleagues to help fairly distribute the research funding."

Study sections review NIH grant applications, make recommendations to the appropriate national advisory councils and survey the status of research in their respective fields. Members, said Richard Nakamura, Ph.D., director of the Center for Scientific Review, are selected on the basis of their demonstrated competence and achievement in their scientific discipline as evidenced by the quality of research accomplishments, scientific publications and other achievements and honors.

The Tumor Progression and Metastasis Study Section reviews applications that deal with the basic mechanisms of cancer progression, metastasis, invasion/migration and angiogenesis. The section places special emphasis on hypoxia, adhesion and growth. Studies focusing on cytoskeleton, proteases, extracellular matrix remodeling, suppressors/inhibitors of metastasis and angiogenesis, and animal models of metastasis and angiogenesis, along with more transitional studies using human cells, are assigned to the section.

Dr. Kim previously served as a member of the NIH Cancer Molecular Pathobiology Study Section and also an ad hoc member of several NIH and Department of Defense study sections.