“I believe that CBER’s tradition of integrating innovative science with innovative regulations has enhanced our ability to protect the public health, and has led to safer and more effective biological products.”

• — Kathryn Zoon

Kathryn C. Zoon was born in 1949 in Yonkers, New York. She received her bachelor’s degree with honors in chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1970 and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Johns Hopkins University in 1976. She was the only female in her chemistry classes at RPI in the 1960s