Joseph A. Madri

Joseph A. Madri, a professor emeritus of pathology, was raised in New York City, where he earned his BS and MS in biology from St. John’s University. He completed his PhD in chemistry and his medical degree at Indiana University, Bloomington, and in 1975 moved to New Haven to start his residency in anatomic pathology. After completing a fellowship in experimental pathology in Heinz Furthmayr’s laboratory in 1980, he accepted an assistant professor position in anatomic pathology and rose through the ranks to become a tenured full professor.

While at Yale, Dr. Madri has been continuously funded by the NIH and the AHA for four decades and was granted a MERIT award by the NIH. He has published 279 papers and has hosted over 100 postdocs as well as MD/PhD, PhD, and undergraduate students in his laboratory. He has also served as assistant and associate editor for the American Journal of Pathology, Laboratory Investigation, The FASEB Journal, the Journal of Cellular Physiology and Angiogenesis; as a member of the scientific advisory boards of The Shriners Research Institutes and Genzyme Tissue Repair; and was a co-founder and director of Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. With his wife, Lucille, Joe founded a charitable non-profit, The Joseph and Lucille Madri Family Foundation, which supports local, national, and international entities focused on health care for the underserved, at-risk youth, food insecurity, and women’s health. They have also endowed a professorial chair in experimental pathology, a resource fund in pathology at Yale, and scholarships for MD/PhD students at Indiana University, Joe’s alma mater.

He also devoted considerable time and effort to teaching medical, graduate, and undergraduate students, serving as director of Pathology Education for almost two decades, and has been awarded the Chugai Award for Outstanding Mentorship and Scholarship by the American Society for Investigative Pathology.

In addition to his academic efforts, Dr. Madri has been a student of the martial art Tae Kwon Do for three decades, achieving a fourth-degree black belt and International Instructor status. he and Lucille are avid cyclists and enjoy exploring back roads by bike.

Now as emeritus, he is enjoying being a student again, reading on subjects he didn’t have time for during his career, also administering the foundation with Lucille and spending more time with his family and friends.