MATTHEWS GROUP & UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - Key Persons


Anamika Banerjee

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Manager ( 2017 - 2018 )

Katelyn A. Bustin

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Kyosuke Shishikura

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
Kyosuke grew up in the Chiba prefecture of Japan. In 2015, he obtained an M.D. degree at Tohoku University where he identified a signaling pathway regulating neutrophil inflammation supervised by Prof. Hisanori Horiuchi. After two years of training as a medical doctor at Tohoku University Hospital, he studied LC-MS/MS based metabolomics at RIKEN/Yokohama City University supervised by Prof. Makoto Arita. During this time he identified an essential enzyme and its metabolites for spermatogenesis through metabolomics and physiology, awarding him his Ph.D. degree. In 2020, he was selected as an Astellas Foundation for Research on Metabolic Disorders Fellow (2020-2021) and joined the Matthews Lab. Here, he is investigating the function of uncharacterized enzymes and their electrophilic PTMs. Besides science, Kyosuke loves biking, drinking and eating out.

Marshall G. Lougee

Job Titles:
  • in Chemistry, College of the Holy Cross, 2016 / Graduate Student ( 2017 - 2018 ) Graduate Student in UPenn Chemistry Dept.

Megan J. Schoenberger

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry, 2017 Fall

Megan L. Matthews

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemistry / University of Pennsylvania
  • Principal Investigator / Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Mina Ahmadi

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Prof. Benjamin Cravatt

Job Titles:
  • Fellow of the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation at the Scripps Research Institute

Sara M. Martin

Job Titles:
  • in Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 2019 / Graduate Student ( 2017 - 2019 ) Strategy Insights & Planning Associate at ZS Associates

Sebastian Dilones

Job Titles:
  • B.S., Chemistry, Haverford College, 2018 / Graduate Student ( 2020 - 2021 ) Graduate Student in UPenn Chemistry Dept.

Suzanne E. Dettling

Job Titles:
  • M.C.S. in Organic Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 2019 / Graduate Student ( 2017 - 2019 )

Victor Khong

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician ( 2020.12.01 - 2021.07.30 )