Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences
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Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences (short KGI) is a small graduate school in Claremont, California. It was founded in 1997 through a startup grant of $50 million from the W. M. Keck Foundation. KGI is a member of the Claremont Colleges.
KGI offers a professional Master of Bioscience (MBS) degree as well as a PhD in Computational and Systems Biology in cooperation with Claremont Graduate University. The two year MBS program integrates scientific and business curriculum, and culminates in a Team Master's Project (TMP) sponsored by one of KGI's industry partners.
Some of Keck's notable advisory council members includes Bruce Alberts, Simon Ramo, and J. Craig Venter.
In April 2005, the Amgen Foundation donated $2 million to establish a teaching and research scale bioprocessing center at KGI. An additional $1.75 million was donated by Dennis Fenton which, along with an additional $750,000 from the W.M. Keck Foundation, will endow a profesorship in honor of George B. Rathmann to direct the center.
A group of KGI faculty were recently awarded a $4.88 million grant through the NSF's Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) program to study the basis of modularity in biology.