Katherine Fitzgerald

Katherine Fitzgerald is a professor of medicine and director of the Program in Innate Immunity within the Division of Infectious Disease and Immunology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where she has worked since 2001. At the University, she serves as principal investigator of the Fitzgerald Lab, working with post-doctoral fellows and graduate students to understand how dysregulation of innate immunity plays a central role in the pathogenesis of infectious, inflammatory and autoimmune disease. Dr. Fitzgerald 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.