Department of Medicine



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Professor

Department of Medicine
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Overview

Michael B. Mathews received his BA and PhD degrees in Natural Sciences / Biochemistry from the University of
Cambridge. After a year of voluntary service teaching in Kenya, he began his research career under the mentorship of
Prof. Asher Korner in the universities of Cambridge and Sussex, England. His thesis was entitled `Viral RNA and
Mammalian Protein Synthesis?. Dr. Mathews was a post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Fred Sanger?s department at the MRC
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, and a Research Associate with Dr. Gordon Tomkins at the University of
California?San Francisco. He moved to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, where he established a research
group and held a series of positions over a period of more than twenty years. Dr. Mathews joined UMDNJ?New Jersey
Medical School as Chair of the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology in 1996. He has received local,
national and international grants and awards, served as journal editor and on numerous editorial boards and review
panels, organized international symposia, and promoted several research initiatives at UMDNJ. He trains both
students and post-doctoral fellows in his laboratory. He is an authority on protein synthesis and virus-host cell
interactions, and has published over 150 research articles, as well as scientific reviews and books. His current
research focuses on HIV, RNA-binding proteins and regulatory RNAs.

Education

PHD, 1970, Cambridge University
B.A., 1965, Christ's College, Cambridge