Katharina Kranzer has always wanted to understand how things work. As a child moving between the USA, Austria, and Germany due to her father's work as a physicist, she developed early a habit of examining systems from the outside.
She briefly considered studying history and politics, but her mother helped convince her medicine offered something more tangible: a way to interrogate the world and change it. At the Technical University of Munich, Germany, where she chose to study in part to be close to the mountains she loved, it was not the routine of clinical training that captivated her.
The Lancet Infectious Diseases published a clinical update in Infectious Disease on 23 Mar 2026.
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