Katie was a graduate student in UCLA’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. She came to UCLA under the ACCESS program. She graduated from Santa Clara University (SCU) with a BS in Cellular and Molecular Biology. She worked for Stanford Research Institute’s Immunology department before joining the Dawson Lab in 2013. Katie researched the roles of TCF7L1 in pancreatic cancer.

She is now a postdoctoral researcher at Cedar Sinai Medical Center.