Dr. Katherine Lontok is the Director of Science and Policy Communications with the Immune Deficiency Foundation and the former Scientific and Digital Editor for ASM. Dr. Lontok holds a B.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology and Genetics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of California, San Francisco. Her thesis work focused on RNA splicing patterns during the blood stage lifecycle of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.