Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences Kathryn J. Moore is a Canadian-born American biomedical scientist and cell biologist.

She is the Jean and David Blechman Professor of Cardiology and the founding director of the Cardiovascular Research Center[1] at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine.

[6] Moore joined the Harvard Medical School faculty as an Instructor in Medicine in 1999 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2002.

[7][8] In 2009, Moore was recruited to the New York University Langone Medical Center, where she continued to focus on origins of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, in particular the roles that chronic inflammation and lipid dysregulation play in these processes.

[9] She contributed to seminal studies showing that cholesterol crystals in atherosclerotic plaques cause lysosomal damage that activates the NLRP3 inflammasome to promote the maturation and release of interleukin-1b.