Nikki is a Technology Licensing Manager at the USC Stevens Center for Innovation.

She has expertise in the life sciences, specializing in diagnostics, cancer, and precision medicine. Prior to joining the team, Nikki was a Graduate Research Assistant at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Biosciences for six years and was a member of the first cohort of Innovation Interns at the Stevens Center in early 2024. Her doctoral research centered on multiomic studies to identify and characterize circulating biomarkers for solid tumors using minimally invasive, blood-based liquid biopsies. Nikki has worked on developing point-of-care diagnostic tests at the Seattle Children’s Research Institute and the University of Washington.

Nikki earned a BS in Bioengineering from the University of Washington and a PhD in Cancer Biology and Genomics from USC.