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Scientific Program

Matthew H. Spitzer, Ph.D.

University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States

Dr. Spitzer is an Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco and an Affiliate Investigator of the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology. Dr. Spitzer completed his undergraduate degree in Biology from Georgetown University followed by graduate training in Immunology at Stanford University in the laboratories of Drs. Edgar Engleman and Garry Nolan. There, he developed experimental and analytical methods to model the state of the immune system and immune responses to cancer using high-dimensional single-cell data. Dr. Spitzer moved to UCSF as a Parker Fellow and a Sandler Faculty Fellow in 2016. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and of Microbiology & Immunology at UCSF, an Affiliate Investigator of the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology, and an Investigator of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub. His research lab uses systems immunology methods including single-cell analysis to understand how the immune system is altered by and mounts responses against cancer. Areas of focus in the Spitzer lab include the systemic impact of cancer on immune function, T cell priming in cancer, and understanding the mechanisms of effective immunotherapy in patients with breast cancer and head and neck cancer.

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