Katja Lamia, PhD
Katja A. Lamia is an associate professor (with tenure) in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Scripps Research. Lamia received her bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996 and her doctorate in Biophysics from Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2003. Following postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, she joined the faculty at Scripps Research in 2010. In 2021, she became associate dean of graduate studies.
Lamia’s research is focused on circadian clocks, which enable organisms to keep track of the time of day and to adjust their physiology to recurring, and therefore predictable, daily changes in the external environment. Her laboratory's work has demonstrated that circadian clocks are critical regulators of mammalian metabolic physiology and the response to DNA damage. Lamia is studying the molecular basis for the circadian control of metabolism, DNA damage response, and tumorigenesis to enable novel therapies to treat metabolic disease and cancer.
Lamia has been recognized with a Searle Scholars Award from the Kinship Foundation, a Sidney Kimmel Cancer Research Scholars Award, and the Aschoff's Rule Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to circadian biology research.
