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David Lim is an integral member of the management team at the House Ear Institute (HEI). As Executive Vice President, Research, Head of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology and Chief of the Section on Molecular Otology, Lim helps the Institute further it’s goal of advancing hearing science through research and education to improve quality of life.
Lim earned his bachelor’s degree from Yonsei University in Korea in 1955 and completed his medical degree there in 1960. Dr. Lim then completed his yearlong Internship at the National Medical Center in Seoul, Korea and was a resident there until 1964.
Lim arrived in the United States in 1965 and became a Research Fellow in the Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard University Medical School and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. In 1966 Lim became a Research Associate in the Department of Otolaryngology at Ohio State University’s College Of Medicine. In 1967 Lim was named Director, Otologic Research Laboratories in this Department, a position he held until 1991, when he was named Professor-emeritus.
During his time at Ohio State University, Dr. Lim also served as an Assistant Professor and Professor in the Otolaryngology Department and as a Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology in the Department of Cell Biology. In 1982, he traveled to Sweden as a visiting scientist of the Swedish Medical Research Council in the Department of Physiology at the Karolinska Institute and Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, King Gustav V Research Laboratory, Karolina Sjukhuset, in Stockholm.
From 1992-1995, Lim was appointed Director, Division of Intramural Research, and Scientific Director, National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In the same year, Lim was also named Chief, Laboratory of Cellular Biology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute on Deafness and other Communications Disorders, NIH, a position he held until 1994.
Dr. Lim came to HEI in 1995 to become Executive Vice President of Research and head of the Laboratory of Cellular Biology. Lim also is a Research Professor in the Department of Cell and Neurobiology at the University of Southern California.
Dr. Lim’s current research interests consist of ear morphology, otopathology, developmental biology, cell and molecular biology, electron microscopy, microbiology, immunochemistry, mucosal immunology, pathogenesis of otitis media, sensory transduction and micro array. He has received 39 research grants and ten research contracts from federal government (NIH, NASA, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army) and private foundations since 1969, as well as eleven research conference grants from NIH since 1975.
Lim has published more than 230 papers in every journal relevant to his field, including Arch Otolaryngol, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Anat Embryol, Infection and Immunity, Acta Otolarngol and Hearing Res. In addition, he has organized several international symposia & research conferences.
Dr. Lim is a co-holder of two patents, U.S. Patent # 6,207,157, a Conjugate Vaccine for nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae, and U.S. Patent # 6,358,688, Immortalized Human Middle Ear Epithelial Cell Line.
Lim belongs to every professional organizations related to his field, including the American Academy of Otolarngology, the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society, Inc., the American Otologic Society, the American Society for Cell Biology, the American Society for Cell Biology, the Barany Society, the Centurions of the Deafness Research Foundation, the International Otopathology Society, the Society for Neuroscience, the Society of University Otolaryngologists and the Korean Society of Otolaryngology.
Lim has received many awards for teaching abilities and his research, including the Gold Award for Teaching from the Ohio State Medical Association, the Gold Award for Scientific Exhibit from the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, the Award of Merit from the American Academy of Otolarngology, the Fogarty International Fellowship from the NIH, Distinguished Scholar Award from Ohio State University, the Javits Award from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders, Guest of Honor at the Second Extra-ordinary International Symposium on Recent Advances in Otitis Media, the Guyot Prize from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, the Freedom Award from The Los Angeles Sertoma Club, the Grand Prize for Medical Sciences (Distinguished Alumni Award) from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, a Presidential Citation from the American Academy of Otolarngology-Head and Neck Surgery and an Award of Merit at the Fifth International Academic Conference on immunobiology in Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology in Siena, Italy.
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