Matthew Lazzara

Matthew Lazzara is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia, UVA Shannon Center Mid-Career Faculty Fellow, Co-Director of the UVA Cancer Systems Biology U54 Center, and a member of the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering with highest honors from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He remained at MIT for postdoctoral studies in Biological Engineering and was the recipient of an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship. Work in the Lazzara Lab employs integrated experimental and computational methods to study cancer cell signaling and has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and American Cancer Society. Projects focus on the rational, model-driven identification of combination therapies for cancer and on fundamental studies of the spatiotemporal regulation of cell signaling by phosphatases and receptor trafficking. Dr. Lazzara is the prior recipient of the American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant and several teaching awards, including the S. Reid Warren, Jr. Award and the Outstanding Faculty Award of the AIChE Delaware Valley. He is a standing member of the NIH Tumor Evolution, Heterogeneity and Metastasis study section, editorial board member of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering and Frontiers in Systems Biology, and co-chair of the NCI Cancer Systems Biology Consortium steering committee.