Dr. Kiang is a Senior Principal Investigator at Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI) and Adjunct Professor at Uniformed Services University of The Health Sciences. She received her B.S. degree from Fu-Jen Catholic University in Taiwan; M.A. from University of Nebraska, and Ph.D. from School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley. She did her postdoctoral training at the University of California at Berkeley; during that time, she also received research trainings at Burroughs-Welcome Laboratory at England. She is the first to discover that combined radiation injury (CI) magnifies activation of iNOS signal transduction, cytokine storm, AKT/MAPK cross-talk and sepsis. She identifies stem cells, ghrelin, ciprofloxacin, and platelets are efficacious to mitigate CI. She found that female mice are more resistant to radiation than male mice. She published more than 170 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. Figures from 2 papers were featured on the journal covers (Shock 2008 and Radiation Research 2021). Her publications have been cited by 7,939 times and read by 43,770 times. She won awards for her research including the Research Excellence Henry Christian Memorial Awards, the Research and Development Achievement Award from the U.S. Army Department, the AFRRI Research Award, and the Radiobiology Research Award as Senior Principal Investigator. She has 2 patents.