My name is Kailee Zingler.

During my first summer in Law School I acted as the Teaching Assistant for Ethics and Policy Questions: Genomics, Healthcare, and Big Data. This course is a core requirement for the Master’s in Biomedical Informatics program I completed in 2018.

In fall 2021, I became a part-time Law Student at DePaul University College of Law. My expected graduation date is May 2025.

As of February 2020, I am now the Compliance Officer for the University of Chicago’s University Research Administration conflict of interest team. Here, I manage a variety of compliance tasks relating to financial conflicts of interest, conflicts of commitment, and foreign influence on university research. I create and maintain professional relationships with diverse group of 3.000+ investigators across UChicago. I am responsible for keeping up with foreign influence federal rules and regulations.

From January 2019 through April 2020, I worked as the Research Program Manager for the Digestive Diseases Research Core Center as well as for Dr. Eugene Chang’s Lab in the Gastroenterology Department of the University of Chicago Medicine. While there, I worked on two important NIH grant resubmissions. The first was the resubmission for the longstanding NIH NIDDK T32 program at UChicago, we achieved renewal. The second was for the 30 year old NIH NIDDK Digestive Diseases Research Core Center program, we were renewed. Also during this time, I maintained the DDRCC and Chang lab websites, as well as for the new UChicago Pouchitis RC2 Research Program and the UChicago Microbiome Medicine Program.

I am a December 2018 graduate of the MSc. in Biomedical Informatics program at the University of Chicago. Here I excelled in my courses and focused my attention on Population Health Informatics. My Thesis was titled, The Feasibility of Utilizing EHR Data to Supplant Survey Data Collection: A Case Study.

From August 2016 through January 2019, I worked for the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division as a Financial Analyst in the Office of Clinical Research. Here, I helped own Epic Research Functionality daily operations of clinical research billing as well as training of research staff in drug development.

In May of 2016, I graduated from New Mexico Tech New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, magna cum laude, with my Bachelors of Science in Biology.

During my undergraduate years I was involved in three separate research ventures. The first started in January of 2014, I worked in initial stages of the Center for Leadership in Technology Commercialization (now the Office of Innovation Commercialization) under Dr. Peter Anselmo doing market research, researching patent law and FDA regulations, helping to draft business plans, working towards commercialization of medical technology and intellectual property created at New Mexico Tech. I began research with the Chemistry Department in February of 2014 under Dr. Liliya Frolova in synthetic organic and metalorganic medicinal chemistry and drug discovery. Starting in January of 2015, I conducted microbiological testing of our drug candidates on various bacterial cell lines with the Biology Department under my undergraduate Advisor Dr. Snezna Rogelj.

In May of 2012, I graduated Salutatorian from the Albuquerque Institute for Mathematics and Science (AIMS@UNM).