Kimberly Bussey

Dr. Bussey is a cancer cytogeneticist and applied bioinformatician developing tools to help oncologists fully integrate genomics into their current medical data streams to realize the promise of precision medicine for their patients: the right treatment at the right time. Her motivation, the observation that cancer is an evolutionary process characterized by chromosome evolution, led her to study rare tumors, develop software to facilitate annotation of “omic” data, and link manipulations of histone acetylation with visual measurements of 3D nuclear architecture before leaving academia for industry. An alumna of the University of Arizona, Dr. Bussey received her PhD in Medical and Molecular Genetics from Oregon Health and Science University in 2000 and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in bioinformatics at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Bussey has published 40 scientific papers and has been granted three patents for her work in rare tumors. She is actively involved with Interface: Faith and Science at Pinnacle, a forum for the exploration of science, faith, and their intersection in modern life. When she isn’t doing science, Dr. Bussey enjoys playing music (piano and English hand bells), hiking, mountain biking, and indulging in her passion for Star Wars with her husband and two daughters.