Karin Bornfeldt received her PhD at Linköping University in Sweden in 1991. Later that year, she came to the University of Washington to do a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Russell Ross, a leader in the field of cardiovascular medicine https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1866597/ She also worked closely with Dr. Edwin Krebs on phosphorylation of signal transduction proteins in vascular cells https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1992/krebs/facts/ She was appointed to the faculty in 1995, and is now Edwin L. Bierman Professor of Medicine and Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. She serves as Director of Research of the UW Medicine Diabetes Institute (UWMDI), Director of the UWMDI Complications Program, and Deputy Director of the Diabetes Research Center. She also directs a T32 training grant in Nutrition, Obesity and Atherosclerosis.
Dr. Bornfeldt is actively involved in graduate student teaching and has served on more than 30 Doctoral Supervisory Committees in Molecular Medicine and Mechanisms of Disease, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Pharmacology, Nutritional Sciences, and Molecular Engineering.
Dr. Bornfeldt is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, an American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Fellow, and she serves as Associate Editor of Circulation Research, Associate Editor of the Journal of Lipid Research, and Consulting Editor of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology.