Samuel Katz, MD, PhD

Samuel G. Katz graduated with a combined B.S./M.S. from Yale University in 1995. He then pursued dual M.D., Ph.D. training in the Health Sciences & Technology (HST) program jointly administered by MIT and Harvard. His Ph.D. thesis with Stuart H. Orkin focused on the transcriptional regulation of hematopoiesis. Sam then completed a residency in pathology and fellowship in hematopathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He performed his post-doctoral studies on apoptosis with Loren D. Walensky at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. As an Associate Professor of Pathology at Yale University, Dr. Katz manages a laboratory concentrating on both intrinsic mechanisms of cell death and ways to reprogram immunocytes to mediate the extrinsic program of cell death, as well as contributes to patient care as an active hematopathologist.