Kristi Kiick

Kristi Kiick
Kristi Kiick at the University of York in January 2020
Born
Kristi Lynn Kiick

1967 (age 56–57)[2]
Alma materUniversity of Delaware (BSc)
University of Georgia (MSc)
University of Massachusetts Amherst (MSc, PhD)
AwardsNational Science Foundation CAREER Award (2003)
Fulbright Scholar (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsBiomaterials[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Delaware
ThesisExpanding the scope of templated macromolecular synthesis in vivo: The incorporation of methionine analogues into proteins in vivo by altering the methionyl-tRNA synthetase activity of a bacterial expression host (2001)
Doctoral advisorDavid A. Tirrell
Websitesites.udel.edu/kiickgroup

Kristi Lynn Kiick is the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Delaware.[1] She studies polymers, biomaterials and hydrogels for drug delivery and regenerative medicine. She is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and of the National Academy of Inventors. She served for nearly eight years as the deputy dean of the college of engineering at the University of Delaware.