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Diane Mathis
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Diane J. Mathis is the Morton Grove-Rasmussen chair of immunohematology at Harvard Medical School. She has been recognized for her research with elections to the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Education[edit]

Mathis received her BS from Wake Forest University and her PhD from the University of Rochester.[1] She did postdoctoral research at the Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Eucaryotes in Strasbourg, France, and at Stanford University Medical Center.[2]

Career[edit]

Mathis returned to the Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire in France, and established a lab in collaboration with Christophe Benoist.[1] Mathis and Benoist moved their lab to the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston in 1999. In 2009, she joined the department of pathology at Harvard Medical School, where she and Benoist continue to operate a joint lab. She is currently the Morton Grove-Rasmussen chair of immunohematology there, and an associate member of the Broad Institute.[1]

Her research focuses on T cell tolerance and autoimmunity, particularly as it applies to the development of type I diabetes.[3]

Mathis was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003[4] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.[5] Columbia University recognized her contributions to the understanding of type I diabetes with the 2012 Naomi Berrie Award.[6] In 2017, she received the FASEB Excellence in Science Award.[7]

  • Rabbi Shai Shaknai Award (2018)[8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Diane Mathis". cbdm.hms.harvard.edu. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Speaker - Cell-Weizmann Institute of Science Symposium: Next Generation Immunology, 11-14 February, Rehovot, Israel". www.cell-symposia.com.
  3. ^ "Mathis, Diane, Ph.D. | Joslin Diabetes Center". www.joslin.org. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  4. ^ "Diane Mathis". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  5. ^ "Diane Mathis, PhD". hsci.harvard.edu. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  6. ^ "Columbia Awards 2012 Naomi Berrie Award to Drs. Christophe Benoist and Diane Mathis". Columbia University Irving Medical Center. 19 November 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  7. ^ "Recipients and Award Lectures". faseb.org. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  8. ^ "The Rabbi Shai Shaknai Award".
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