Daniela Matei, M.D. is a Diana Princess of Wales Professor in Cancer Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the co-Leader of the Translational Research is Solid Tumors Program in the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is a physician scientist well-known in the field 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 and served as the Co-leader of the Experimental and Developmental Therapeutics Program of the Indiana University Simon Cancer Center since 2007. 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 Fund.

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 is also engaged in clinical research and serves as the principal investigator and/or co-investigator on many clinical trials testing novel therapies for ovarian cancer, including several cooperative group and National Cancer Institute–sponsored trials for gynecologic cancer.

A Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, Susan Gubar is the co-author and co-editor of “The Madwoman in the Attic” and the “Norton Anthology of Literature by Women.” She has produced a range of other books on representations of gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity.

Since Susan Gubar was diagnosed with late-stage ovarian cancer in 2008, she has attempted to clarify the perspective of patients: in her “Memoir of a Debulked Woman,” in the handbook “Reading and Writing Cancer,” and in her New York Times column “Living with Cancer.”

Susan Gubar has been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013 with her collaborator Sandra M. Gilbert, she received the National Book Critic Circle’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship awarded her the Natalie Davis Spingarn Writers Award.

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Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Daniela Matei, Susan Gubar (2020), "Genomic Cancer Medicine Is the Future Now?," https://nanohub.org/resources/33473.

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1. cancer
2. genomic medicine
3. healthcare
4. nanomedicine