Kansas State University has named bioengineering expert Karen Burg as its vice president for research.

Burg has been serving as interim vice provost and dean of the Graduate School at Clemson University since 2011. Beginning Aug. 3, she will lead Kansas State University’s research mission in support of the goals of K-State 2025.

Burg succeeds Ron Trewyn, who will ransition to the role of liaison between Kansas State University and the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, the federal laboratory for animal health being built adjacent to campus.

Burg also will be a professor of chemical engineering at Kansas State University.

At Clemson, Burg has been the Hunter endowed chair, a professor of bioengineering and has directed the Institute for Biological Interfaces of Engineering.