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Susan Kaech 2019 Headshot

Herman Beerman Lecturer

Susan Kaech, PhD, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Title:  TBD

Susan Kaech is a Salk Institute Professor, Director of the NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis, and holder of the NOMIS Chair.  Prior to this she was a Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor at Yale University in the Department of Immunobiology (2004–2018).  Dr. Kaech did her postdoctoral work with Dr. Rafi Ahmed at Emory University (1999–2004) and received her PhD in Developmental Biology at Stanford University. She received her BS in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Washington.

Dr. Kaech aims to understand how memory T cells are produced during infection and vaccination, how they function and why in some particular cases, they fail to induce long-term immunity. Her lab has been a leader in using genetic and molecular tools to identify the genes and signaling molecules involved in generating two specific types of memory T cells, CD4 and CD8, from precursor cells during both acute and chronic viral infections. She and her team discovered more than half a dozen important regulatory genes, as well as several types of key molecules called cytokines, which influence memory T cell development.

Dr. Kaech is also interested in how T cells are metabolically regulated, and how their differentiation and function can be altered by nutrient availability during infection and in tumors. In particular, she seeks to learn how T cell behavior is suppressed by tumors, in order to create better therapies for cancer using the body’s own immune system—an innovative and rapidly moving field called cancer immunotherapy.

Dr. Kaech has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Damon Runyon–Walter Winchell Cancer Research Fellowship (1999), the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences (2003), the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (2007), the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist (2009), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow (2020).

About the Lectureship:
This award is given in recognition of Dr. Herman Beerman’s long and devoted service to the SID and his efforts to secure for it a position of respect in the scientific community.  The Beerman Lecture is given by a distinguished medical scholar at a scientific session of the Society’s Annual Meeting.  Traditionally, lecturers from fields other than dermatology are chosen in order to give meeting attendees the opportunity to learn about scientific advances in other fields.

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Kim-BrianStephen I Katz, MD/PhD International Lectureship Award
Johann v2Eugene M. Farber Lecturer
Cristina de Guzman StrongState-of-the-Art Plenary Lecture I
Feinberg Research Labs. Photo by Jim PrischingState-of-the-Art Plenary Lecture II
Ito-1William Montagna Lecturer
Gallo headshot JPEGStephen Rothman Memorial Awardee
Eleni-23[2]State-of-the-Art Plenary Lecture III
Christiano.Angela.photoNaomi M. Kanof Lecturer
DriskellRRPic3State-of-the-Art Plenary Lecture IV
Photo from WebsiteJulius Stone Lecturer
SID_logo_PPlenary Sessions 1-3
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