Kate E. Galloway

Kate E. Galloway

W. M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering

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One of the greatest challenges in understanding biological phenomena arises in integrating across multiple systems and time-scales. Chemical engineering equips students with the skills to understand biological systems across molecular and cellular scales and to engineer new functions driving innovations in biotechnology and medicine.

Research Interests

Synthetic Biology, Molecular Systems Biology, Stem Cells, Cellular Reprogramming, 3D Genome Organization & Structure, Single-cell Analytics, Genetic Control Systems, Oncogenesis & Metastasis

Education

Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2012
M.S., California Institute of Technology, 2007
B.S., University of California, Berkeley, 2005

Publications

Honors and Awards

C. Michael Mohr Outstanding Faculty Award, 2024

National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2024

BMES Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Rising Star Award, 2023

Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) (R35), 2021

ARCS Maggie McKnight Russell Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow Award, Fall 2017-Fall 2019

NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, Fall 2015 – Fall 2018

1st Place Winner of Annual USC Postdoctoral Symposium, May 2017

Doerr USC Stem Cell Challenge Award, 2017

Fluidigm USC Single Cell Project Grant, 2016

California Institute of Regenerative Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship, Fall 2013 – Fall 2015

Caltech Everhart Lecturer, May 2011

Graduated with Honors, University of California, Berkeley, College of Chemistry, 2005