Matteo D’antonio
PhD
Other Fields
Bioinformatics
La Jolla, California, United States
Dr. Matteo D'Antonio is an assistant professor in the Division of Biomedical Informatics, UCSD, where his main focus is identifying the molecular mechanisms underlying the associations between genetic variation and disease. He earned his Bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy and his Master's in Bioinformatics at the Technical University of Denmark. After that, he obtained his PhD at the European Institute of Oncology, where he studied the evolution of protein interaction networks and cancer genes. He joined UCSD in 2013 where he transitioned from cancer genomics to human genetics. He worked in Dr. Kelly Frazer's lab as a postdoc and project scientist before transitioning to assistant professor in March 2022.