Kiana Aran, PhD

Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Cardea Bio,, Assistant Professor, Medical Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Keck Graduate Institute, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Kiana Aran is a Co-Founder and Chief Scientific officer at Cardea Bio. She is also an Assistant Professor of Medical Diagnostics and Therapeutics at Keck Graduate Institute, a member of the Claremont Colleges and visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California Berkeley. She received her undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the City University of New York in 2007 and her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Rutgers University in 2012. She then continued her postdoctoral studies in bioengineering at the University of California Berkeley and was a recipient of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) postdoctoral training fellowship at the Buck Institute for Aging Research in 2015. Her research efforts focus on designing novel biosensing platforms, using 2D nanomaterials, for early disease diagnosis as well as utilizing biology as tech elements for a variety of biosensing applications. In addition, to biosensing she combines various engineering modules to develop tools to better understand the process of aging. Dr. Aran scientific vision is to explore the utility of nano-electronic systems to develop transformative and customizable platforms for multiomics applications and commercialization of these platform. Her efforts have been recently recognized by many awards in science and STEM including the clinicalOMICS 10 under 40 and 2020 women in STEM leadership pinnacle award in life sciences category.