Katherine Fitzgerald, PhD

Kate is a professor of medicine, director of the Program in Innate Immunity within the Division of Infectious Disease and Immunology, and vice chair for research in the Department of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, where she has worked since 2001. At the university, she serves as the principal investigator of the Fitzgerald Lab, working with postdoctoral fellows and graduate students to understand how dysregulation of innate immunity plays a central role in the pathogenesis of infectious, inflammatory, and autoimmune diseases. From 2014 to 2019, Kate served as an adjunct professor at the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology. She has received numerous awards for her research and has been named a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher multiple times, recognizing her as being among the most frequently cited researchers in the field of immunology. Kate received her Bachelor of Science in biochemistry from the University of Cork, Ireland, and her doctorate in biochemistry from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.