Kim Orth

Kim Orth is a microbiologist and biochemist. She is the Earl A. Forsythe chair in biomedical science and professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at UT Southwestern.^[1] She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator ^[2] and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on bacterial pathogenesis.^[3]

Kim Orth graduated from Texas A&M University in 1984 with a B.S. in biochemistry. She went to the UCLA School of Medicine for an M.S. in biological chemistry, and then to University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center for a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology.^[4]