Bio:

Matt is a Scientist III on the High Resolution Translational Immunology team within the Allen Institute for Immunology and is working to develop novel modalities for overcoming technological hurdles in the advancement of the field. He brings a diverse skillset and research background to the team, having studied protein interactions and intracellular trafficking in the context of breast cancer in acquiring his PhD in Genetics from the University of Arizona, developmental blockades imposed by PAX5 haploinsufficiency in pediatric leukemias as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Washington, and single cell RNA and multiomic profiling of primary T cells for optimizing CAR-T generation as a scientist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. Most recently, he came from industry where he worked as part of a team to optimize preservation and sequencing methods for using single, fixed, trophoblast cells isolated from maternal blood samples as a way to combine non-invasive liquid biopsy and RNA profiling to identify prognostic indicators of still birth.