Mateusz Koptyra, PhD

Dr. Mateusz Koptyra is the Research Lab Director in Center for Data Driven Discoveries in Biomedicine (D3b) at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Mateusz leads the coordination of Center’s wet bench workflows and pipelines and oversees implementation of wet bench scientific projects around the Center. His main work oscillates around specimens collection, handling storage and downstream processing, tumor models development, high throughput data generation and non-invasive diagnostics.

Mateusz’s team develops tissue specimen-derived tumor models that are currently shared by the Children’s Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium around the world. Independently, Mateusz’s research interests focus on non-invasive diagnostics and improvement of molecular profiling for pediatric brain tumors patients.

Mateusz earned an MS degree from Warsaw University and completed his PhD from the Medical University of Warsaw in Warsaw, Poland.

Awards and Recognition

2001      II Conference of Polish Science Society of Oncology. Best poster, Warsaw, Poland

2004      American Society of Hematology Conference. Travel Award, San Diego, CA.

2005     Health Minister Award for series of experimental publications explaining mechanisms of proteasome inhibitor antitumor effect and grounds for genomic instability in cells transformed by oncogene – BCR/ABL, Warsaw, Poland.

2015      Select Biosciences conference “Circulating DNA, circulating RNA, circulating tumor cells”. Best poster presentation, Boston, MA.

2019     CBTTC Advisory Council Research Award from the Children’s Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium for the project “Pediatric Brain Tumor miRNA profiling for the Cohort of Children’s Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium specimens”