Diane Mathis
Diane Mathis is the Martin Grove-Rasmussen Professor of Immunohematology in the Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School. She is also a Principal Scientist at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute.
Dr Mathis obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. She performed postdoctoral studies at the Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Eucaryotes in Strasbourg, France and at the Stanford University Medical Center. She then co-directed a lab (with Christophe Benoist) at the Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculare et Cellulaire (IGBMC) in Strasbourg for 16 years.
Dr. Mathis’ laboratory works in the fields of T-cell differentiation and autoimmunity. Her work on autoimmunity explores the immunological mechanisms of type-1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmune-polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal dystrophy (APECED) using modern genetic and genomic approaches, in both human patients and mouse models. She is a pioneer in the emerging field of Immunometabolism.
Dr. Mathis has been a member of the US National Academy of Sciences since 2003, the German Academy, Leopoldina since 2007 and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences since 2012. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Romancon Prize, the Foundation Athena Research Prize, and the FASEB Excellence in Science Award.