Faculty Directory
Dedicated to a new model of graduate education, many faculty have come to KGI from well-established academic positions and successful biotechnology companies, combining impressive academic credentials with a keen awareness of the industry's latest developments to bring the new ideas and innovations into their classrooms and labs.
| Faculty Member | Areas of Expertise |
| Craig Adams |
Molecular biology, bacterial pathogenesis, protein biochemistry, homogeneous, heterogeneous and multiplex immunoassay, diagnostic assay development, novel assay technologies |
| Luann Bangsund |
Firm valuation, private equity, new venture finance |
| Gail D. Baura |
Medical devices, machine learning, engineering ethics |
| Steven Casper |
Economic sociology, international business, science and technology policy |
| Jay I. Chok |
Business and society, entrepreneurship, strategic management |
| Timothy R. Coté |
Drug regulation, epidemiology, public health practice, tropical diseases, orphan drugs, anatomic pathology |
| James M. Cregg |
Recombinant gene expression, recombinant protein synthesis, protein purification, peroxisome biogenesis and autophagy, molecular biology and biochemistry, gene function, homologous recombination, genomics, bioprocessing, optimization of cultures in fermentors |
| Matthew S. Croughan |
Bioprocessing, biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing |
| Angelika B. Niemz |
Medical devices, in vitro diagnostics, nucleic acid testing, isothermal DNA amplification, infectious disease diagnosis, bioengineering, biosensors, lab automation, nanotechnology, molecular biology and biochemistry |
| James C. Osborne |
Protein biochemistry, protein structure, enzymology, capillary electrophoresis, DNA arrays, diagnostic applications, laboratory automation |
| Ian Phillips |
Cardiac stem cells, heart failure, hemorrhagic stroke, AAV vectors, gene modification, orphan drugs, stem cell therapy, gene therapy |
| Animesh Ray |
Gene function, gene regulatory network, genomics, homologous recombination, gene targeting, microRNA, systems biology, epigenetic regulation, plant molecular biology, plant development, melanoma biology, synthetic biology, molecular computing |
| Molly B. Schmid |
Antibiotics, antimicrobial drug discovery, biochemistry, drug discovery, genomics, infectious diseases, molecular biology, pharmaceutical development, proteomics |
| Sheldon M. Schuster |
Molecular biology, protein biochemistry, DNA protein biosensors |
| Steve Sommer |
Neuropsychiatric Illnesses, spontaneous mutagenesis |
| James D. Sterling |
Bioengineering, biosensors, diagnostic applications, electrowetting, laboratory automation, microfluidics |
| Joel West | Open innovation, intellectual property, technology policy, renewable energy |