Karen Bush

Karen Bush is an American biochemist. She is a professor of Practice in Biology Emerita at Indiana University Bloomington and served as the interim director of the Biotechnology program from 2019 to 2022. She worked in antibiotic drug discovery and drug development in the pharmaceutical industry for 35 years. Bush conducted research focusing on the activity of novel antimicrobial agents against Gram-negative bacteria and bacterial resistance mechanisms to beta-lactam antibiotics.