Matthew McAteer

I love learning how things work and figuring out how to make them better. I spent my adolescent years working at a wildlife hospital. I learned so much about how living organisms, while complex, can break and be repaired like machines. These were formative experiences for my interest in life sciences.My love of science and engineering continued to grow throughout middle and high school, with such projects as the Underwater Robotics club, Biology Club, research on biosequestration at the University of Helsinki, Biophysics research on human bone, and working as a programming intern at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.I joined Brown University, one of the world's foremost research universities in the world, in 2011 to study Cell & Molecular Biology. I took a break from my studies my Freshman year to explore some of my entrepreneurial ideas with my own synthetic biology venture, McAteer LifeLabs. Resuming my studies in 2013, I further explored my interest in the process by which living things grow old and die, and devoted my time to researching a way to stop this.I am currently a researcher in a Biogerontology lab at Brown University.