Fellow
University of Miami
Matthew Sun is a cerebrovascular and skull base fellow at the University of Miami, under the mentorship of Dr. Jacques Morcos. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Biology with a neuroscience concentration. He earned his medical degree from the University of California San Francisco, where he first developed his interest in neurosurgical oncology. He was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute research fellowship as well as an NIH T32 fellowship to study malignant brain tumor invasion. He then completed his neurosurgery residency at the University of California Los Angeles. During his residency, he was awarded an NIH R25 award to study brain tumor immunology to develop new immunotherapy treatments for malignant meningiomas. He has won the Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research at Stanford for his neurobiology research at Dr. Ben Barres’ lab, and the Chih Foundation Award in Neuroscience research at UCSF for his work done at Dr. Andrew Parsa’s lab, studying the molecular mechanisms of brain tumor invasion. His meningioma immunotherapy research has won the Best Basic Science Research award at the Western Neurosurgical Society meeting as well as the Synaptic Preuss Brain Tumor Research Award at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons meeting.