Karen Duff

Karen Elizabeth Keitley Duff (born 1965) is a British scientist known for her work on Alzheimer's disease. She is currently Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology at Columbia University. Her most notable work focused on the development and characterization of mouse models of Alzheimer's disease amyloid deposition.

She was educated at the University of East Anglia (BSc, 1987) and completed her PhD at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1991 entitled "A study of human and murine cardiac development using molecular genetics methodology". At Cambridge she was a student of Sydney Brenner's department. She was awarded the Potamkin Prize in 2006, together with Karen Ashe and Bradley Hyman.

She has an h-index of 85.