Kate grew up in Australia, performed her undergraduate studies (B.Sc, (Honors)) at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and completed her Ph.D. in immunology with Professor Charles Mackay at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia. She then worked as an Immunology editor with Nature Medicine in New York in 2007 before performing her postdoctoral research with Professor Sasha Tarakhovsky at The Rockefeller University in New York focusing on epigenomic regulation of innate immunity and inflammation. Kate is also co-founder of the New York Imagine Science Film Festival in New York City and is a proud mother of two daughters. She started her independent laboratory at MGH/Harvard in 2012.