Adriel Y. Kim, PhD, is a first year Laboratory Genetics and Genomics fellow at The Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital. She completed her B.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and M.S. in Diagnostic Genetics from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She earned her Ph.D. in the Molecular Medicine program at the Lerner Research Institute of Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University. Her master's thesis involved optimizing whole genome amplification method in the development of a non-invasive prenatal test using single fetal cells from the maternal circulation. During her doctoral research, she focused on comparative genome-wide analysis of germline variants in PTEN hamartoma tumor syndrome (PHTS), a rare genetic disorder associated with cancer predisposition and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), to identify genetic modifiers and develop prediction models for cancer vs. ASD outcomes in PHTS. Additionally, she received a formal training in clinical cytogenetics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio after her B.S. and nurtured deep passions for cytogenomic technologies by working several years in clinical laboratories. Supported by her years of clinical and translationally focused research experiences, Dr. Kim plans to commit to advancing applications of cytogenomics and integration of molecular assays in laboratory medicine to deliver accurate diagnosis and facilitate improved patient care.