Kevin Strange

Biography

Kevin Strange, Ph.D., became the MDI Biological Laboratory’s first president in July 2009 after a distinguished career as an NIH-funded biomedical scientist and leader at Harvard Medical School and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Before arriving in Maine, Dr. Strange was associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Critical Care Research Laboratories at Children’s Hospital in Boston. In 1997, he moved to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine where he was the John C. Parker Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Anesthesiology, founding a much-needed basic, translational and clinical research program that quickly elevated the department’s prestige to “top ten” status. Dr. Strange is an expert in the field of cellular stress biology, and leads groundbreaking research into how proteins are damaged by environmental stressors and how cells detect, degrade and repair these damaged proteins.  

Research Interest

Biomedical research institution, human health and well-being through basic research, discoveries into cures