Prof. Dr. Matthew D Weitzman graduated with a degree in genetics from the University of Leeds, UK (1987), and obtained a PhD in molecular virology from Oxford Polytechnic and the NERC Institute of Virology and Environmental Microbiology in Oxford, UK (1991). He undertook postdoctoral work on a Fogarty Visiting Fellowship at the NIH (1991–1993) and as a Cystic Fibrosis Postdoctoral Fellow (1994–1995) at the Institute for Human Gene Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1997, he moved to the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, where he established a productive and well-funded lab. In 2011, he moved to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and established his lab in Cancer Pathobiology. He currently holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pediatrics, and Microbiology within the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Center for Childhood Cancer Research (CCCR), the Penn Institute for Immunology (IFI), and the Penn Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). On the national level, he served as chair of the Education Committee for the American Society for Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) and chair of the New Investigator Committee.