Katharine Hsu

Dr. Hsu is a hematologist and medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and Professor of Medicine at Cornell Medical College. Her research focuses on natural killer (NK) cell biology, stem cell transplantation, and adoptive cell immunotherapy. The major focus of her research is to determine how to use genetic, phenotypic, and functional information about innate immune cells to improve outcomes in the treatment of malignancies, particularly hematologic malignancies that currently can only be cured by allogeneic stem cell transplantation.

Dr. Hsu received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Cornell University Medical College. She conducted her residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA and completed her fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.