Chris Karp Demystifies the Gates Foundation Nov. 24
Post Date: November 19, 2025 | Publish Date:
Immunologist, infectious diseases specialist and internist shares how scientific innovation, global collaboration, and translational pathways align.
Former Cincinnati Children’s Division of Molecular Biology Director Chris Karp, MD, will share his perspectives on how high-impact scientific innovation, global partnerships, and translational pathways converge in the work of the Gates Foundation—and what this means for children’s health, equity and our collective future—for the next Envisioning Our Future For Children lecture November 24.
Karp serves as director of Discovery & Translational Sciences at the Gates Foundation, where he leads the team focused on catalyzing innovation for the discovery and translation of transformative solutions to global health and development inequities. An immunologist, infectious diseases specialist and internist, Karp joined the foundation in 2012 as deputy director, Vaccines & Host-Pathogen Biology, on the Global Health Discovery & Translational Sciences team.
Prior to his work at the foundation, Karp held academic appointments in the Departments of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology & Immunology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and he was founder and Esiason/Bell Professor of Pediatrics for the Division of Molecular Immunology at Cincinnati Children’s.
His scientific research has centered on uncovering mechanisms underlying the regulation and dysregulation of inflammatory responses in infectious, allergic and genetic diseases—with a particular focus on children’s health.
He completed medical training at Brown University and Georgetown University, followed by an NRSA fellowship in the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and an infectious diseases fellowship at Johns Hopkins.
Members of the Cincinnati Children’s research community are encouraged to attend his presentation at Burnet Campus, “Demystifying the Gates Foundation.” Not open to the public.
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