WEHI Director’s Seminar hosted by Professors Ken Smith & Vihandha Wickramasinghe

Kate Jeffrey, PhD

Vice President and Global Head of Immune Therapeutics and Genomic Sciences at Moderna in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

mRNA: A new era in vaccines and therapeutics

Davis Auditorium

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Including Q&A session

Kate defines strategy and drives discovery and development of therapeutics covering autoimmunity, inflammation, hematology and rare disease using Moderna’s proprietary mRNA technology and modalities. Prior to joining Moderna, Kate had a highly successful academic career at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital where she was an Associate Professor of Medicine, a John Lawrence Research Scholar, a faculty member of Harvard Immunology, Harvard Virology, MIT Microbiome Centre for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics and a member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Kate performed her Ph.D. in Immunology at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia and her postdoctoral research at The Rockefeller University in New York City under a CJ Martin National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) fellowship. Kate is the recipient of multiple awards for her work in immunology and epigenetics including the Rockefeller Women in Science Award, Kenneth Rainin Foundation Innovator Award, Claflin Distinguished Scholar Award and MGH Research Scholar Award. Kate was also the co-founder of the Imagine Science Film Festival in New York and gave a TEDx talk.

All Welcome!