Professor, Scripps Research; Associate Dean of Graduate Studies

Katja Lamia earned her PhD in biophysics from Harvard University and did postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School and at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Lamia has been a faculty member at Scripps Research since 2010. Her laboratory focuses on understanding the relationship between circadian rhythms and human physiology and pathology. She is committed to training the next generation of scientists who will contribute to research integrating circadian biology, metabolism and cancer biology, and was named Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in 2021. Lamia 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.