kiana: Performing Artist in New York

About kiana

Kiana Aran is a biomedical entrepreneur and Associate Professor at both UC San Diego's School of Medicine and UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering in the Department of Bioengineering. She is also the Chief Innovation Officer at Paragraf Ltd. Paragraf, a UK-based semi-conductor company, acquired Cardea Bio Inc., which she co-founded and ran as the Chief Science Offer. She has also helped co-found CRISPR QC Inc. that offers a CRISPR Analytics Platform that helps pharma and biotech companies optimize their gene editing research. Her overall research and inventions are focused around developing technologies and bioelectronics for multi-omics studies and applications, especially when they enable products and technologies for studying the mechanisms of healthy aging. She became known as the pioneer of fusing CRISPR and electronics, resulting in the CRISPR-chip technology that is being used to improve the quality of genotyping and gene editing. She was awarded the 2021 Nature – Estée Lauder Research Award for Inspiring Women in Science.