Professor
Harvard University
Dr. Mathis earned a PhD from the University of Rochester and conducted postdoctoral studies at the Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Eucaryotes in Strasbourg, France, and Stanford University Medical Center. In 1983, she returned to Strasbourg to establish a lab at the LGME, later the Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculare et Cellulaire (IGBMC), with Dr. Christophe Benoist. The lab relocated to the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston in 1999. Until 2008, she served as a Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School (HMS), and as Associate Research Director and Head of the Section on Immunology and Immunogenetics at Joslin. Currently, she is a Professor in the Department of Immunology at HMS, holding the Morton Grove-Rasmussen Chair in Immunohematology, and is a Principal Faculty Member at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Associate Faculty Member of the Broad Institute. Dr. Mathis serves on advisory boards for Rockefeller University, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and major companies like Genentech, Pfizer, and Amgen, among others, as well as research institutes worldwide. She was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2003, the German Academy in 2007, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. Her numerous honors include the 2016 Excellence in Science Award, the 2023 Menarini Prize, and the 2024 William B. Coley Award. Her lab focuses on T cell differentiation, immunological tolerance, autoimmunity, and inflammation, training over 175 students and postdoctoral fellows globally.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
8:00am - 8:30am East Coast USA Time
