Casey Kiyohara graduated recently with a Ph.D. from the Thomas lab, and just started a new position as a postdoctoral fellow at the FDA. She is in the Clinical Pharmacology of Therapeutic Biologics and Biosimilars Fellowship program, in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). Her project is focused on investigating the pharmicokinetic characteristics of therapeutic proteins.
This makes Casey the second Thomas Lab Alumnus to work at the FDA. Victoria Rodriguez, Ph.D. ’12 works in the Office of Cardiovascular Devices on sterilization, as one of the first Thomas lab members to merge interests in infection with cardiovascular disease.