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Molly B. Schmid, PhD
Professor, Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Areas of Expertise:
  • Antibiotics
  • Antimicrobial Drug Discovery
  • Drug Discovery
  • Genomics
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
  • Pharmaceutical Development
  • Proteomics

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 projects aim to make drug discovery faster and less risky.  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 eight issued U.S. patents and several others pending.  Prior to coming to KGI, she spent ten years in the biotechnology industry, most recently as Senior Vice President of Preclinical Programs at Affinium Pharmaceuticals in Toronto, Ontario, and previously in executive positions at Genencor International (Palo Alto, CA) and Microcide Pharmaceuticals (Mountain View, CA).  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