Faculty

Sung Tae Kim, PhD, HCLD completed his Bachelor, Master, and PhD in South Korea and finished his post-doctoral training at Vanderbilt University and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. His research focused on spermatogenesis, fertilization, pre-implantation embryo development, endometrial differentiation and implantation as well as embryonic urogenital development using a knock-out mouse model. He has continued his human IVF/ART career in US since 2012 and is currently the lab director at University Hospitals Fertility Center and Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine since June 2019. He served the College of Reproductive Biology (CRB) as a Legislative committee member in 2020-2021 and is serving as a Credentialing and Membership committee member in 2023-2025. He has been elected to serve as Co-Chair, Continuing Education of American Association of Bioanalysts (AAB) Midwestern Regional Board of Governors for the 2024-2025. He is an ad-hoc reviewer for Fertility & Sterility and Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics and an editorial board member of the journal of EC Gynaecology (ECGY), international peer-reviewed journal, UK. He is in reproductive biology/medicine field over 25 years and has over 70 peer reviewed publications/abstracts/invited lectures, together.

Dr. Mesiano is a graduate of Monash University, Melbourne Australia, where he received a PhD in Physiology (Reproduction) specializing in the hormonal control of fetal growth. As a WM Keck Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Endocrinology, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Center for Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco where he studied the development and functional biology of the human fetal adrenal cortex, after which he remained at UCSF as a faculty member. During that time, he co-mentored REI fellows in the UCSF program guiding them through the basic science (mainly molecular biology) of their research projects.

In 1998 Dr. Mesiano moved to the University of Newcastle, Australia, where he was a senior lecturer and principal investigator in the Mothers and Babies Research Centre. His research examined the role of steroid hormones in the control of human pregnancy and parturition. In 2004 he joined the faculty in the Department of Reproductive Biology at Case Western Reserve University where he continues to perform research into the molecular endocrinology of steroid hormone action in human reproduction specializing in pregnancy and parturition.

As co-director of the UH OB/GYN Research Division, he plays an active role in mentoring clinical fellows and ensuring that expertise and infrastructure are available to ensure success. He brings hands-on experience in basic research into human reproduction to the UH REI fellowship program and actively participates in the planning, implementation and analysis research outcomes. Dr. Mesiano is the Case Western Reserve University/UH/MetroHealth site director for the March of Dimes Prematurity Research Ohio Collaborative and his research is also funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through the Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth.