Matt Clutter, PhD

Northwestern University
Chicago, United States

Matt Clutter, PhD is a high throughput screening specialist at Northwestern University in the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute’s High Throughput Analysis Lab. He received his bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and PhD in Immunology from Stanford University under the mentorship of Garry Nolan. Following graduate school, he became Director of Discovery Assays at Primity Bio, a startup company pioneering pharmacodynamic tests for oncology trials to monitor the effects of drugs on signaling networks in patient cells. In 2013, he moved to Northwestern University as part of a concerted effort to stimulate drug discovery through specialized core facilities. His research interests include the development of novel kinase inhibitors, discovery of radiosensitizers for treating various cancers, and genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screening approaches to uncover new therapeutic drug targets.