Katalin Szaszi is a scientist and the Keenan Professor for Translational Medicine at the Keenan Research Center for Biomedical Science, St Michael’s Hospital and Department of Surgery, University of Toronto. She obtained MD and PhD degrees at the Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary, and did post-doctoral training in Toronto, Canada at the Division of Cell Biology, Hospital for Sick Children. Following a second PDF training at the Toronto General Hospital, she was appointed as a scientist at the St Michael’s Hospital in 2005. Her research group investigates fundamental cellular and molecular mechanisms governing tissue regeneration, inflammation and fibrosis, with focus on the cell biology of epithelial stress sensing and inflammatory responses. Their studies uncovered fundamental mechanisms of Rho family small GTPase regulation and cytoskeleton and intercellular junction remodelling, and the pathological consequences of these in kidney and skin disease. She has authored 89 peer-reviewed, well cited publications (H-index 45). Her lab is funded by peer-reviewed grants from CIHR, NSERC and the Kidney Foundation of Canada. She is full member of the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto, and cross appointed to the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology. She has a record of successful supervision of a large cohort of trainees and was the co-director of the Research Training Center of the St Michael’s Hospital (2017-2024)