Rosalind A. Segal

Rosalind ‘Roz’ Segal, HMS professor of neurobiology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, became dean for graduate education effective Aug. 1, 2019. Dr. Segal is an accomplished scientist whose research spans neuroscience and cancer biology. Her research group at Dana-Farber focuses on growth-factor pathways critical for brain development, determining how these pathways are hijacked in brain cancers and in associated neurologic disorders, the disease mechanisms she identifies having direct therapeutic implications.

Dr. Segal is the recipient of many awards and honors including the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, membership in the Association of American Physicians, and the HMS Harold Amos Faculty Award for Diversity. She was previously director of the Harvard PhD Program in Neuroscience and chair of the Department of Cancer Biology at Dana-Farber. She has made significant contributions to teaching and administration in her own lab and in the Harvard community. She has advised undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who have gone on to diverse careers in science and medicine. Dr. Segal has served as a faculty advisor for neuroscience PhD students, for MD-PhD students, for MD students in the Peabody Society, and for Harvard freshmen.