Gretchen Kiser, PhD
Executive Director
Research Development Office
Chancellor/EVC/FAS

In this role, she supports institutional research goals and strategic research initiatives broadly, leading a professional team: that employs innovative team science methods toward fostering development of collaborative, multi-disciplinary research teams and facilitating development of large, complex multi-investigator research proposals, and that manages the strategic distribution of intramural research funds and the selection of campus limited submission funding opportunity nominees. Dr. Kiser has a diverse research background in cell biology, genetics, genomics, and molecular biology, including several years in the biotech industry focused on genotyping and gene expression product development. While in industry, she also acquired expertise in Lean Six Sigma, a statistical measurement-based business management strategy. She combines her hands-on research experience with research and faculty development, team science, teaching, and technical writing experience. As a past president, an elected Fellow and a recipient of the 2021 Leadership Award from the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP), she is recognized by as a leader in research development, an emerging field that sits at the nexus of research administration and research and encompasses the strategic development of new knowledge and knowledge mobilization. Team science is an essential element of research development and Dr. Kiser has developed and implemented a diverse set of methods and formats for team science, team-building, and conflict resolution all toward fostering innovative approaches and novel partnerships, facilitating greater team /program productivity, as well as increasing institutional competitiveness and capabilities in research funding. She has broad experience working in partnership with individual faculty members, teams of researchers, external cross-sector stakeholders and various institutional administrators and leaders to nurture the research programs and the institutional research enterprise generally.

Dr. Kiser received her B.Sc. in Biology at UCLA, where her passion for academic research was sparked, and her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology (Genetics minor), studying cell cycle regulation in the yeast genetics lab of Dr. Ted Weinert at the University of Arizona. She then went on to a post-doctoral fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in the protein structure/function lab of Dr. John Riordan.

• The External RNA Controls Consortium: a progress report.
  Nature methods 2005 Baker SC, Bauer SR, Beyer RP, Brenton JD, Bromley B, Burrill J, Causton H, Conley MP, Elespuru R, Fero M, Foy C, Fuscoe J, Gao X, Gerhold DL, Gilles P, Goodsaid F, Guo X, Hackett J, Hockett RD, …
• Robust dysregulation of gene expression in substantia nigra and striatum in Parkinson's disease.
  Neurobiology of disease 2005 Miller RM, Kiser GL, Kaysser-Kranich TM, Lockner RJ, Palaniappan C, Federoff HJ
• Temporal evolution of mouse striatal gene expression following MPTP injury.
  Neurobiology of aging 2005 Miller RM, Chen LL, Kiser GL, Giesler TL, Kaysser-Kranich TM, Palaniappan C, Federoff HJ
• Characterization and gene expression profiling of a stable cell line expressing a cell cycle GFP sensor.
  Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) 2005 Thomas N, Kenrick M, Giesler T, Kiser G, Tinkler H, Stubbs S
• Dysregulation of gene expression in the 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine-lesioned mouse substantia nigra.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2004 Miller RM, Callahan LM, Casaceli C, Chen L, Kiser GL, Chui B, Kaysser-Kranich TM, Sendera TJ, Palaniappan C, Federoff HJ
• Expression and degradation of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
  Archives of biochemistry and biophysics 2001 Kiser GL, Gentzsch M, Kloser AK, Balzi E, Wolf DH, Goffeau A, Riordan JR
• Heterologous expression systems for study of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator.
  Methods in enzymology 1998 Chang XB, Kartner N, Seibert FS, Aleksandrov AA, Kloser AW, Kiser GL, Riordan JR
• Inhibition of epithelial Na+ currents by intracellular domains of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator.
  FEBS letters 1997 Kunzelmann K, Kiser GL, Schreiber R, Riordan JR
• Distinct roles of yeast MEC and RAD checkpoint genes in transcriptional induction after DNA damage and implications for function.
  Molecular biology of the cell 1996 Kiser GL, Weinert TA
• GUF1, a gene encoding a novel evolutionarily conserved GTPase in budding yeast.
  Yeast (Chichester, England) 1995 Kiser GL, Weinert TA
• Organization of the V gene segments in mouse T-cell antigen receptor alpha/delta locus.
  Genomics 1994 Wang K, Klotz JL, Kiser G, Bristol G, Hays E, Lai E, Gese E, Kronenberg M, Hood L
• Mitotic checkpoint genes in budding yeast and the dependence of mitosis on DNA replication and repair.
  Genes & development 1994 Weinert TA, Kiser GL, Hartwell LH
• Restriction fragment length polymorphisms of the mouse T-cell receptor gene families.
  Immunogenetics 1989 Klotz JL, Barth RK, Kiser GL, Hood LE, Kronenberg M
• Molecular and serological diversity of anti-DNA autoantibodies from NZB and (NZB X NZW) F1 mice.
  Immunology letters 1988 Klotz JL, Kiser GL, Kronenberg M