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Molly B. Schmid, PhD
Professor, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Director of Research

Areas of Expertise:
  • Antimicrobial Drug Discovery
  • Pharmaceutical Development

Molly Schmid is a Professor and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences. She teaches courses on entrepreneurship and the science and business aspects of drug discovery and development. Her research focus is in the areas of chemical genetics and antimicrobial drug discovery. While an Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University her research group discovered Topoisomerase IV in Salmonella typhimurium, as well as a genetic strategy for identifying new antimicrobial targets. She has seven issued U.S. patents, and several others pending.

Prior to coming to Keck Graduate Institute, she spent ten years in the biotechnology industry, most recently as Senior Vice President of Preclinical Programs at Affinium Pharmaceuticals in Toronto, Ontario. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, a Searle/Chicago Community Trust Scholar and a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Fellow.   Dr. Schmid earned her PhD in biology from the University of Utah and her undergraduate degree in biology from SUNY Albany.

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Contact Information

Molly Schmid
909/607-8565
Molly_Schmid@kgi.edu