Faculty Detail
Name
SSANG-TAEK STEVE LIM
Associate Professor
Campus Address
SHEL 81
Phone
(205) 975-4984
E-mail
stevelim@uabmc.edu
Other websites
Lim lab web page
Faculty Appointment(s)
Appointment Type
Department
Division
Rank
Primary
Joint Pathology
Molecular & Cellular Pathology
Associate Professor
Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center
Comprehensive Cancer Center
Associate Professor
Center
Comprehensive Cardiovascular Ctr
Comprehensive Cardiovascular Ctr
Associate Professor
Center
Ctr for Clinical & Translational Sci
Ctr for Clinical & Translational Sci
Associate Professor
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Lim received his bachelor’s and master’s degree in Cell and Molecular Biology from Seoul National University, South Korea, and Ph.D. in Cell Biology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2003. He completed his postdoctoral training at the Scripps Research Institute’s Department of Immunology and the University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center where he became an Assistant Project Scientist before joining the University of South Alabama’s faculty as Assistant Professor in 2012 and earning promotion as Associate Professor in 2019. Then, he started his new position to the Department of Pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2022.
Keywords
FAK, Integrin, ECM, epigenetics, atherosclerosis, breast cancer, glioblastoma