Kiana Aran's Biography

Kiana Aran, Assistant Professor, Keck Graduate Institute, HENRY E. RIGGS SCHOOL OF APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES

Kiana Aran received her B.S. in electrical engineering from City University of New York in 2007 and Ph.D. in Biomedical engineering from Rutgers University in 2012. From 2012-2016 she conducted postdoctoral studies in Bioengineering in the University of California Berkeley. Since 2017 she has been a faculty of Medical Diagnostics and Therapeutics at Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont Colleges and a visiting assistant professor at the University of California Berkeley. Dr. Aran research focuses on integration of biology, microfluidics and 2D nano-electronic platforms for biosensing applications for clinical diagnostics as well as aging research. She was a recipient of National Institutes of Health (NIH) postdoctoral training fellowship at the Buck Institute for Age Research in 2015 and her current research in aging is supported by NIH RO1 and philanthropy awards. She is also a consultant for the Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation in the field of medical diagnostics and drug delivery.