Matthew George Vander Heiden MD, PhD

Dr. Vander Heiden is the Howard S. and Linda B. Stern Assistant Professor in the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also an Instructor of Medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Vander Heiden received his M.D. and Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago working in the laboratory of Dr. Craig Thompson. He completed clinical training in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Massachusetts General Hospital program, prior to completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School with Dr. Lewis Cantley.

He maintains a limited medical oncology practice at Dana-Farber in addition to his research efforts at the Koch Institute at MIT. His research is focused on understanding how cell metabolism is regulated to support proliferation.