K Sean Kimbro, PhD
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K. Sean Kimbro is an Associate professor of Biology at the North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC. He also serves as the Principle Investigator for the Center for Translational Health Equality Research. A Center created to provide infrastructure for the study of various health disparities in the North Carolina, with emphasis on cardiovascular metabolic disparities.
Dr. Kimbro received his undergraduate from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and his PhD in Molecular and Microbiology from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. From 1993 to April 1995, he was a postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School and from 1995 to 1997 a Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Dr. Kimbro was later an associate professor at Clark Atlanta University, Department of Biological Sciences, in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2004, Dr Kimbro was recruited to direct the NIH Center of Excellence at Winship Cancer Institute, for which he help conceive. He was later recruited to North Carolina Central University to be the Director of the Julius L. Chambers Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute in 2010. In 2014, Dr. Kimbro received funding to continue his research in cancer health disparities and returned to the lab to study immunity and breast/prostate cancers including Type 2 diabetes and obesity.
Dr. Kimbro received his undergraduate from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and his PhD in Molecular and Microbiology from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. From 1993 to April 1995, he was a postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School and from 1995 to 1997 a Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Dr. Kimbro was later an associate professor at Clark Atlanta University, Department of Biological Sciences, in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2004, Dr Kimbro was recruited to direct the NIH Center of Excellence at Winship Cancer Institute, for which he help conceive. He was later recruited to North Carolina Central University to be the Director of the Julius L. Chambers Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute in 2010. In 2014, Dr. Kimbro received funding to continue his research in cancer health disparities and returned to the lab to study immunity and breast/prostate cancers including Type 2 diabetes and obesity.