Symposium Co-Chair
Robinson Professor of Chemistry
Tufts University
Professor Krishna Kumar holds the Robinson Professorship in Chemistry at Tufts University, where he also serves as Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering and is a member of the Cancer Center at Tufts Medical Center. He currently serves as Secretary of the American Peptide Society.
Dr. Kumar earned his PhD from Brown University in 1996 and conducted postdoctoral research at The Scripps Research Institute with M. Reza Ghadiri before joining Tufts in 1998. His research operates at the interface of chemistry, biology, and medicine, with current interests spanning therapeutic peptide design for diabetes, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as novel approaches to combating antibiotic resistance.
His honors include the MIT Technology Review TR35 Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and the 2023 Rao Makineni Lectureship. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Society of Chemistry.