Katharine C Hsu

Katharine Chia-Rae Hsu is an American physician-scientist in the field of research in human natural killer cells. Hsu has worked as an attending physician and member at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

She has been a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, and director of the Tri-Institutional MD–PhD Program.

Education Hsu received a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science from Stanford University in 1987. She received a Doctor of Philosophy in cell biology in 1993 and a Doctor of Medicine in 1994, both from Cornell University.

During her doctoral studies at Cornell University, she studied at the laboratory of Moses Chao.

Hsu completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston in 1997.

Career Hsu joined the faculty of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where she has worked as an attending physician and member in the Immuno-oncology Program. She specializes in the treatment of blood cancers.

She became a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in 2017. In April 2021, Hsu was named the director of the Tri-Institutional MD–PhD Program, succeeding Olaf Sparre Andersen.