Dr. Daniela Matei, a nationally recognized cancer clinician and translational scientist, will become the next director of the Houston Methodist Dr. Mary and Ron Neal Cancer Center following a national search. She begins in April.
A renowned expert in ovarian cancer treatment and research, Matei currently serves as chief of the Division of Reproductive Science in Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and is the leader of the Translational Research in Malignancies Program at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Matei has made significant contributions to ovarian cancer biology and therapeutics, earning numerous accolades for her work. An experienced clinical trialist, she has led multiple hypothesis-driven trials in women with gynecologic cancers and has published more than 170 papers, with over 15,000 citations. For the past two decades, she has served on committees of the National Cancer Institute, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Ovarian Cancer NCI Taskforce, the Gynecologic Oncology Group (now NRG Oncology) and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network…