Stephen J. Kron

Co-founder and SAB member Stephen J. Kron received his MD, Ph.D., in Cell Biology from Stanford University and is currently a professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at The University of Chicago. Steve has published over a hundred papers and reviews and is an inventor on multiple patents, several of which have been commercialized.

Steve’s education and training at Penn, Stanford, and MIT were in biochemistry, bioengineering, biophysics, and genetics. Steve has published over a hundred papers and reviews and is an inventor on multiple patents, several of which have been commercialized. His laboratory is generously funded by the NIH and industry to study DNA damage responses in cancer cells and tumors, including interactions of radiotherapy and immunotherapy. Steve also brings three decades of experience in fluorescence microscopy and immunodetection to the Cell IDx team.