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Paula Kavathas, PhD

Professor of Laboratory Medicine, of Immunobiology and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
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Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Laboratory Medicine

Vice Chair of Diversity, Immunobiology

Institutional Leader, CIRTL Network, CIRTL Network

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Professor of Laboratory Medicine, of Immunobiology and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Laboratory Medicine; Vice Chair of Diversity, Immunobiology

Positions outside Yale

Institutional Leader, CIRTL Network, CIRTL Network

Biography

Dr. Kavathas studies the T cell co-receptor CD8ab and the functional significance of four isoforms of the human CD8b protein that exist in humans and great apes but not mice. More recently she is studying the basis for acquired resistance to immunotherapy of human lung cancer tumors.

Dr. Kavathas is currently Vice Chair of Diversity for both the Departments of Immunobiology and of Laboratory Medicine. She is on the board of Status of Women in Medicine, SWIM, and of the Women’s Faculty Forum, WFF, (Chair from 2013-2017). She played a role in diversifying portraits at Yale including commissioning a portrait of the first women PhDs located in the nave of Sterling library. Other activities include co-organizing a conference entitled “Gender Rules,” publication of The View (a demographic analysis of women and URMs at Yale), expansion of the Phyllis Bodel Childcare Center, and changes in parental leave policies.

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Education & Training

PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison (1980)
BA
University of Wisconsin-Madison (1972)

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Immunotherapy

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Frequent collaborators of Paula Kavathas's published research.

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2024

1993

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