Daniela Matei, MD
Houston Methodist Neal Cancer Center
Executive Director
Acting Professor of Medicine, Houston Methodic Academic Institute
Daniela Matei, M.D. is the Director of the Houston Methodist Dr. Mary and Ron Neal Cancer Center, Acting Professor of Medicine in the Houston Methodist Academic Institute, and CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research. 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 and at Northwestern University until 2026. 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.
