Biography—

Chrissa Kioussi is a professor and chair of pharmaceutical sciences at Oregon State University, 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, 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, and a reviewer in NIH study sections, U.S. research foundations and European research agencies. 

Kioussi earned her doctorate degree 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.