"The immune system develops customized ways of recognizing foreign molecules. It’s truly a miraculous process."
— Dr. Erick Matsen
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Matsen
Frederick Matsen, PhD
- Professor, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutch
- Associate Program Head, Herbold Computational Biology Program, Fred Hutch
- Member, Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center (IIRC), Fred Hutch
- Member, Pathogen-Associated Malignancies Integrated Research Center (PAM IRC), Fred Hutch
- Member, Translational Data Science Integrated Research Center (TDS IRC), Fred Hutch
- Affiliate Associate Professor of Genome Sciences and of Statistics, University of Washington
Background
Dr. Frederick “Erick” Matsen is an expert in computational biology, which is the science of using biological data to develop computer algorithms, or programs, to understand biological systems and relationships. His research team has developed new methods to analyze data generated by sequencing the DNA of viruses, immune cells and complex environmental samples containing many microorganisms. The team also pursues more abstract questions about the methods used to construct evolutionary trees. Another focus of Dr. Matsen’s work is on improving software used in computational biology, both by developing open source tools and by contributing to work on larger, collaborative projects.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Education
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, PhD in Mathematics, June 2006
Universit´e de Paris 13, Paris, France, DEA in Mathematics, June 2001
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, BS in Mathematics with honors, June 2000