Matthew Kutys, Ph.D., is the Associate Director of Synthetic Circuits and Experimental Cell Models at the Allen Institute for Cell Science.Prior to joining the Allen Institute, Dr. Kutys was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at the University of California, San Francisco. His research program operated at the interface of cell biology and engineering to investigate how biochemical and mechanical signaling pathways coordinate multicellular organization during development, regeneration, and disease.Dr. Kutys earned his Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology through the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National Institutes of Health under the mentorship of Kenneth Yamada, where he pioneered 3D cell culture models to uncover mechanisms of cell motility in complex environments. He subsequently completed postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Christopher Chen at Boston University and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, where he developed and applied human microphysiological systems to study tissue morphogenesis.

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