Katja Lamia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine
from the Scripps Research Institute

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Katja Lamia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine at Scripps Research in La Jolla, CA. Her research program is focused on the mechanisms by which circadian clocks modulate metabolism, cell proliferation, and transformation by regulating a multitude of transcription factors. Her group has made key advances in understanding the function of mammalian cryptochrome proteins. Katja has been honored with a Searle Scholars Award from the Kinship Foundation, and a Sidney Kimmel Cancer Research Scholar Award. In 2016, she received the Aschoff’s Rule, an international recognition of career contributions to circadian biology. She is a member of the Executive Committee for the Center for Circadian Biology at the University of California, San Diego, a faculty member of F1000, and the Program Chair for the 2020 biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Biological Rhythms (SRBR).

 

Homepage: www.scripps.edu/lamia

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katja-lamia-3b4b175/

Twitter: @KatjaLamia