Her lab uses experimental and computational approaches to study signaling and transcriptional regulation in response to pathogens, with a focus on activation of latent HIV, as well as innate immune signaling. Her lab is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Kathryn was an NIH NSRA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley and she holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and A.B. and B.E. degrees in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College. She is a member of the Biomedical Engineering Society and a former Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academies in Washington, DC.