Scientific Director
SLAS
Oak Brook , Illinois, United States
Lesley Mathews M.Ed., Ph.D. is currently SLAS Scientfic Director. Lesley provides strategic leadership for scientific content and delivery through the SLAS's educational conferences, webinars and programming, and supporting its two peer-reviewed journals – SLAS Discovery and SLAS Technology. Prior to joing SLAS, she was the Associate Director, Cellular Pharmacology for the Center for the Development of Therapeutics at the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard (Cambridge, MA). During her time at the Broad Institute, she was responsible for leading teams in both the Cellular Pharmacology and Translational Pharmacology groups, overseeing the advancement of projects from early-stage development to full-fledged drug discovery research projects. Prior to Broad, Lesley was a Principal Scientist in the Oncology Group at the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research-Oncology (Cambridge, MA), where she also served as a lead teacher in the community exploration learning lab program. During this time, she obtained an M.Ed. in secondary education and teaching in biology from Lesley University (Cambridge, MA) to combine her passion for science and education. Mathews earned her Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst followed by a post-doctoral research position at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes for Health (Frederick, MD) and held a Research Scientist position at NCATS/NIH before joining pharma.
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