Dr. Kane is an assistant professor in the Department of Medical Sciences & Education, and a Grant Strategist in the Office of Proposal Development. In this role, she supports other faculty in the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine in writing clear and compelling scientific narratives for grant funding. She will focus particularly on industry funding opportunities, team science, and convergent/interdisciplinary research.

Dr. Kane trained as an ecologist and anthropologist whose work focused broadly on primate feeding ecology and physiology. Her research examined the impacts of resource distribution on primate socioecology, life history, and community ecology by synthesizing observational research on wild primates with research on physiology and morphology.

As a postdoctoral research associate at Boston University, she worked with Dr. Cheryl Knott on a project examining life history influences on orangutan feeding ecology in Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, with an emphasis on nutrition, digestion, and endocrinology. Her PhD at The Ohio State University combined behavioral research and endocrinology to examine the behavioral, dietary, and reproductive strategies allowing female Diana monkeys (Cercopithecus diana) in Côte d’Ivoire’s Taï National Park to maintain a fruit-rich diet year-round with minimal intragroup competition.

Dr. Kane also spent four years as a scientific program manager for Sarah Mazzilli and Marc Lenburg’s labs in Boston University’s Department of Medicine, section of computational biomedicine (2021-2025), managing projects related to understanding lung pre-cancer and early-stage lung cancer.