Matthew DeLisa, Ph.D.
Cornell University
Matthew DeLisa, Ph.D., is the William L. Lewis Professor of Engineering in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. He holds field faculty appointments in additional departments, including Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology and Biomedical and Biological Sciences. DeLisa is currently the Director of the Center for Advanced Technology in Life Science Enterprise.
DeLisa received his M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland. Prior to joining Cornell, he was a postdoctoral fellow in chemical engineering at UT-Austin. His research investigates how proteins are built, shaped, modified and regulated—through folding and assembly, membrane translocation, post-translational modification and degradation—within the intricate milieu of the living cell.
DeLisa is Chief Editor for the Glycobiology Section of Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, and serves on numerous editorial boards. His work has been recognized with many awards, including the Marvin Johnson Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) BIOT Division; the Charles Thom Award from the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology; an NSF CAREER Award; and Young Investigator Awards from the ACS BIOT Division, Beckman Foundation, Biochemical Engineering Journal and Office of Naval Research. He was selected to City&State New York’s “Life Sciences Power 50,” the IDA/DARPA Defense Science Study Group and the National Academies Committee on Innovative Technologies to Advance Pharmaceutical Manufacturing. He has also been elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the American Academy of Microbiology.
DeLisa received his M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland. Prior to joining Cornell, he was a postdoctoral fellow in chemical engineering at UT-Austin. His research investigates how proteins are built, shaped, modified and regulated—through folding and assembly, membrane translocation, post-translational modification and degradation—within the intricate milieu of the living cell.
DeLisa is Chief Editor for the Glycobiology Section of Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, and serves on numerous editorial boards. His work has been recognized with many awards, including the Marvin Johnson Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) BIOT Division; the Charles Thom Award from the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology; an NSF CAREER Award; and Young Investigator Awards from the ACS BIOT Division, Beckman Foundation, Biochemical Engineering Journal and Office of Naval Research. He was selected to City&State New York’s “Life Sciences Power 50,” the IDA/DARPA Defense Science Study Group and the National Academies Committee on Innovative Technologies to Advance Pharmaceutical Manufacturing. He has also been elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the American Academy of Microbiology.