Dr. Matthew J Paszek is an Associate Professor and Director of Postdoctoral Studies in the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. The work of his group combines concepts and approaches in engineering, synthetic biology, and glycoscience to understand human disease and develop new biotechnology. This work has been recognized and supported by multiple awards, including the NIH New Innovator and NSF CAREER awards. Prior to Cornell, Dr. Paszek investigated the mechanobiology of cancer under the mentorship of Drs. Daniel Hammer and Valerie Weaver at the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained his Ph.D. Dr. Paszek expanded on his graduate studies as a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, during which time he developed new methods for nanoscale cellular imaging and identified new biophysical mechanism underlying the regulation of cell-surface receptors in cancer.