Catherine Dulac, Ph.D.

Dulac is the Samuel W. Morris University Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. She grew up in Montpellier, France, graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and received her Ph.D. from the University of Paris. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University before joining the faculty of Harvard University, where she was department chair from 2007 to 2013. Her work explores the identity and function of neural circuits underlying social and sickness behaviors in mice. She is a member of the U.S. and French academies of sciences and the American Philosophical Society. She is an officer of the Legion d’Honneur and a recipient of multiple awards, including the Pradel, the Lounsbery and the Karl Spencer Lashley awards, the Ralph W. Gerard Prize and the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.