Daniela Matei, MD

Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Department of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

 Daniela Matei, M.D. is The Diana Princess of Wales Professor of Cancer Research and the Chielf of the Division of Reproductive Science in Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Matei serves as the Leader of the Translational Research in Malignancies Program in the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center.  She is a physician scientist focused on the study of ovarian cancer.  Dr. Matei earned her M.D. from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila” in Bucharest, Romania and completed post graduate training at SUNY at Stony Brook and at UCLA.  She was a Professor at Indiana University in the Division of Hematology Oncology until 2015.  Dr. Matei’s research has been continuously funded by the National Cancer Institute, the US Department of Veteran Affairs, the Department of Defense, the American Cancer Society, the V Foundation, and the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance.

Dr. Matei’s laboratory studies mechanisms of ovarian cancer metastasis and novel therapeutics for ovarian cancer. The general theme is translation between bench and clinic; with laboratory research forming the foundation of clinical experiments. She serves as the principal investigator on clinical trials testing novel therapies for ovarian cancer, including several cooperative group and National Cancer Institute –sponsored trials for gynecologic cancer.