Karen E Martin, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

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Postdoc, Oslo University Hospital

PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology

BS, Cornell University

Dr. Karen Martin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University. Her research integrates principals of immunology, genetic engineering, and translational medicine to advance natural killer (NK) cell therapies for the treatment of solid tumors.

She earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and her PhD in Bioengineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Andrés García, she developed synthetic biomaterial delivery vehicles for cell therapy applications in regenerative medicine, with an emphasis on understanding how immune responses affect the success or failure of these therapies. She then completed her postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Karl-Johan Malmberg at Oslo University Hospital in Norway, where she developed genetic engineering strategies to mitigate immune rejection of allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) NK cell therapies.

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In her free time, Karen can be found in the mountains running, hiking, skiing, or rock climbing.