Matt Tector received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1995. His was a fellow at the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, Germany. He has used the techniques of biochemistry, cell biology, and molecular biology, and proteomics. He has studied how the immune system responds to organ transplants and infection, the biological basis behind the disease Cystic Fibrosis, and how neurons communicate with one another. Currrently he works at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and is studying patient responses to various drugs. He is also actively involved in Aurora's efforts to acquire the newest medically relevant technology