Kara Lynch, PhD

Professor of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and Co-director of the Core Laboratory for Clinical Chemistry & Toxicology, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center

Kara L. Lynch, PhD, is a Professor of Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She serves as Co-Director of the Core Clinical Laboratory at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, overseeing Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology, and is Director of Chemistry at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. Her research focuses on clinical chemistry and toxicology, with expertise in the use of mass spectrometry to identify and quantify endogenous and exogenous compounds in biological specimens. Her laboratory develops and applies technologies including LC-MS/MS and LC-QTOF mass spectrometry, with the goal of translating laboratory findings into clinically useful approaches for disease diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring.