Kyoungmin Park

Kyoungmin Park, PhD

  • Research Associate
  • Assistant Director, Animal Physiology Core
  • Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Kyoungmin Park focuses on investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying insulin’s action on the vascular wall and developing new therapeutic drugs for macrovascular complications, atherosclerosis in Type 2 diabetes. Additionally, working to determine the role of autoimmunity or autoimmune disease in the severity and development of atherosclerosis in Type 1 diabetes, diabetes-related disease, including cardiovascular disease.

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

ADA Fellowship

Contact Information

Office Phone

(617) 309-2660

Kyoungmin.park [at] joslin.harvard.edu

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