Alumni

Dr. Hickerson, who joined KGI in October 2005, received her BS in Engineering and Applied Science (2000) and her PhD in Bioengineering (2005) from the California Institute of Technology. Since joining KGI, she has worked on the design of multiple diagnostic instruments including subsystems in sample preparation, amplification, and detection of nucleic acids. Hickerson is […]

Eemon Tizpa, and is a rising third year medical student at Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University. Born in Olympia, Washington and moved to Southern California to attend Pitzer College where he earned his BA in Biochemistry. After Pitzer, Tizpa attended KGI to pursue a MS in Translational Medicine at Keck […]

During his time at KGI, Marco interned at a Medical Device company called Axonics for one summer before accepting a job at Blue Matter Consulting in San Francisco upon his graduation in May 2019. He’s been there ever since, serving as a Manager and working exclusively with life science, healthcare, biotech and biopharma companies. Discussion […]

Michael Jones graduated from KGI in 2019 with a concentration in Pharmaceutical Discovery & Development through the MBS program. He has participated in a 2-year Regulatory Affairs Rotational program at Gilead Sciences where he explored the Regulatory Documentation and Submission processes, R&D Quality and Compliance, Regulatory Liaison and Regulatory Policy & Intelligence roles. He is […]

After being out of school for 25 years—raising and homeschooling her five children during the interim—Tamerisa Dyer, MSGDA ’22, is finished her Master of Science in Human Genetics and Genomic Data Analytics (MSGDA) program. Dyer graduated from UC Davis in 1994 with a bachelor’s degree in genetics. She then took time off to raise her […]

Steven Casper, who joined KGI in July 2003, is a leading expert on the ‘business of science’ and has studied the success and failure of bioscience hubs around the world. He is widely published in the fields of economic sociology, international business, and public policy, and is the author of a book on the development […]

Dr. Quintin Broussard, who joined KGI in August 2018, completed a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and a minor in Mathematics from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Houston College of Pharmacy. After graduating from the University of Houston, Dr. Broussard completed a […]

Masters-level healthcare professional with a diverse background in direct patient care, the biotechnology industry, as well as the non-profit sector. Currently, Brooks manages a team of genetic counselors and regional medical specialists who focus on clinical education of health care providers and internal sales partners on oncology and prenatal genetic testing. Discussion Topic: Genetics, Genomics, […]