Dr. Katherine A. Waugh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She earned her Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Colorado – School of Medicine at National Jewish Health and has previous experience working in large-scale, team-based research initiatives at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome (www.trisome.org). As an independent investigator, her lab continues to capitalize on recent advances in genomics to dissect inflammatory mediators of aberrant health trajectories that are heterogeneously experienced by individuals with trisomy of human chromosome 21. Untested dogma predicts this to shed light on the broad spectrum of Down syndrome with widespread implications.