Bio
Matthew earned his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from UCLA, where he conducted full-time basic and clinical neuroscience research investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disease. He subsequently completed a graduate degree in Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Oxford as The Queen’s College Herbruck Scholar, an award granted to only one American student per year, where his research focused on paraneoplastic autoimmunity and spatial genomic regulation of malignant CNS neoplasms.
As a medical student at Stanford University, Matthew has trained under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Lim, developing expertise in translational neuro-oncology, in order to investigate the cellular and molecular mechanisms that drive immunosuppression in glioblastoma. His research has centered on glial immunology and the metabolic organization of the tumor microenvironment, with particular emphasis on intercellular organelle transfer and immunometabolic reprogramming of tumor-infiltrating immune cells.
His family’s experience with brain cancer continues to ground his work and deepen his commitment to understanding, and ultimately improving, neurosurgical oncology.
