Karla Kirkegaard
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Karla Kirkegaard | |
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| Born | 1954 (age 70–71) |
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| Spouse | Peter Sarnow |
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| Fields | virology |
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Karla Kirkegaard (born 1954)[1] is the Violetta L. Horton Research Professor of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She was the chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology from 2006 to 2010. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on virology.
Kirkegaard received her bachelor's degree in genetics from the University of California Berkeley in 1976[2] and her PhD from Harvard University in biochemistry and molecular biology in 1983[3] the lab of James C. Wang. She then did postdoctoral research at the Whitehead Institute in the lab of David Baltimore.[4]
