Kate Fitzgerald
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@FitzgeraldKate
Innate Immunologist and Cytokine biologist 🇮🇪 UMass Chan Medical School. Opinions are my own.
🚨While the world is burning down around us, I'm happy to share that I've been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Though this is considered a personal achievement, it was only possible due to the wonderful trainees in the lab, who carried me here❤️.
Congrats to postdoc @Nikita2106 for winning the Margaret Foti (@AACR_CEO) Scholar-in-Training Award for next month's Pancreatic AACR conference! If you see her at the conference, be sure to ask her about her work on PDAC cachexia, bioRxiv link below! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Carla Rothlin(@carlarothlin) as our new Director of the Center for Immunology and Dr. Sourav Ghosh as CFI Program director, Immunology of Tissue Resolution, Repair, & Regeneration at UMN! Both join us from Yale and officially start in August 2025.
It’s an incredible honor to receive the ASMS Research Award. I’m thankful to the selection committee and humbled to be alongside with so many brilliant scientists. This recognition is a reflection of the amazing collaborators and mentors I’ve had the privilege to work with.
Last night I was honored to receive the 2025 #BreakthroughPrize in the Life Sciences, reflecting the efforts of many students, collaborators, doctors, and patients in labs around the world. I hope this 4-minute excerpt can inspire when science needs public support more than ever.
