Karen Markova is described by students, colleges, and former patients as in turns, brilliant, gifted, and dangerous.

Born in the isolated regions of the Eastern Soviet Union, she emmigrated to the United States with her parents in the early 1990s.  Her parents died in a car crash when she was eight years old and she was raised by an aunt who in turn was murdered while she was in college.  She worked very hard to excell, but also to become as American as possible.  Though she speaks Russian fluently, her english is unaccented, and only as an adult had come to speak of her childhood in Russia without reluctance.

After recieving an MD/PhD from Yale University, she went on to get a veternary degree to further her research.  While she was still in graduate school she was recruited by Developemental Neogentics Amalgamated to work on their GLS project.  She mostly conducts research on wolves, though occasionally she will be given access to teenaged human suffers from the werewolves disease.  She is unapologetic about her work, and sincerly believes that she is saving lives.
 

Native Langauge:  Russian

Learned Langauge:  English