Faculty Members
KGI brings together faculty members with expertise spanning across bioengineering, computational biology, applied molecular and cellular biology and bioscience business under one administration. Faculty members at KGI boast strong industrial experience in addition to their academic research expertise.
Ionian Technologies was founded in 2000, and was the first spin-off company to commercialize technology developed at KGI. Ionian focuses on molecular diagnostics for emerging and infectious diseases, and in 2004 was awarded a contract to develop a handheld biothreat detector using isothermal amplification of DNA. Other KGI startups include Zuyder Pharmaceuticals and Claremont BioSolutions.
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