Third pharmacy dean candidate to present March 6, schedule updated

LAWRENCE – Chrissa Kioussi, a professor and chair of pharmaceutical sciences at Oregon State University, will be the third candidate for the School of Pharmacy dean position to present her vision for the school.

The presentation is set for 4-5 p.m. March 6 in Room 1020 of the School of Pharmacy building. The event will be livestreamed, and the passcode is 932064.

The fourth and final candidate’s presentation also has been rescheduled to 4-5 p.m. March 13 in Room 1020 in the School of Pharmacy building. They will be announced approximately two business days before the visit.

Members of the KU community are encouraged to attend the presentations and provide feedback to the search committee. Presentation recordings and the online feedback form will remain available on the search page through March 18.

Additional search information, including Kioussi’s CV, is also available on the search page.

As chair of OSU’s pharmaceutical sciences department, Kioussi leads a team of faculty, students, trainees and staff, promoting the research portfolio of the College of Pharmacy and advocating for teaching and research needs.

Her research is related to developmental biology and molecular genetics, focusing on how genes and cells work cooperatively and systematically to generate and regenerate organs, with funding provided by numerous entities, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), American Heart Association and March of Dimes.

Kioussi has previously served as an American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Academic Leadership Fellow and Provost Fellow, the chair of the College of Pharmacy Promotion and Tenure Committee and the Research Office’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and a member of the Center for Quantitative Life Sciences Scientific Advisory Board and Faculty Senate Graduate Council.

She is an editor and reviewer of multiple scientific journals and book series as well as a reviewer in NIH study sections, U.S. research foundations and European research agencies.

Kioussi earned her doctorate in molecular and cellular biology from the Hellenic Pasteur Institute and a bachelor’s degree in biology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, both in Athens, Greece. She previously trained at Pasteur Institute, University College London, the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, the Scripps Research Institute and the University of California San Diego School of Medicine.

The School of Pharmacy Dean search committee includes representatives from faculty, staff, students and alumni and is being led by Michelle Carney, dean of the School of Social Welfare, and Candan Tamerler, associate vice chancellor for research and professor of mechanical engineering.