Diane Mathis - Biography#

Dr. Mathis is currently a Professor in the Department Immunology at Harvard Medical School, and holder of the Morton Grove-Rasmussen Chair in Immunohematology. She is also a Principal Faculty Member at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and an Associate Faculty Member of the Broad Institute. She presently serves on Advisory Boards of Rockefeller University, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Genentech, Pfizer, Amgen and Janssen Immunosciences (amongst others), and of several research institutes worldwide. Dr. Mathis 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. She received the FASEB Excellence in Science Award in 2016, the Rabbi Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize in Immunology and Cancer Research in 2018, the Ulf von Euler Award in 2022 and the inaugural Menarini Prize for Outstanding Woman Immunologist, International Union of Immunological Societies in 2023.

Her lab works in the fields of T cell differentiation, autoimmunity and inflammation. She has trained over 175 students and postdoctoral fellows.