Karin Borgh, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute (BTCI). She received a B.A. in Japanese from Stanford University and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Child and Family Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before leaving academia to help establish BTCI, Dr. Borgh taught, focusing on teacher training, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and later became an Assistant Professor in the College of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. In 2002, she was a recipient of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's Business Education Partnership Award.
For the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Borgh serves as Adjunct Associate Professor for the Master of Science Program in Biotechnology and as Volunteer Faculty for the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Laboratory Science Program. She is chair of the Education Committee for the Wisconsin Biotechnology and Medical Device Association and a member of the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium Advisory Committee. Since Fall 2002, Dr. Borgh has served as a discussion leader for "Medical Ethics and Palliative Medicine," a required course for medical students at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). She is currently enrolled in MCW's Certificate in Clinical Bioethics Program.