Dr. Mat Victor is an HHMI Hanna H. Gray Faculty Fellow in the Neuroscience Department at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Victor earned his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis where he pioneered a novel cellular reprogramming approach to study the contribution of aging to neurodegeneration (Victor et al., Neuron 2014 and Victor et al., Nature Neuroscience 2018). His dissertation work was recognized with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship and a Research Dissertation Award to Promote Diversity (R36) from the National Institute of Aging. Dr. Victor conducted his postdoctoral training at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT where he explored how genetic susceptibility in microglia, the brain-resident immune cells, contributes to neurodegeneration (Victor et al., Cell Stem Cell 2022 and Sun & Victor et al., Cell 2023). At Mount Sinai,  Dr. Victor joins the faculty of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, The Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer's Disease, and the Friedman Brain Institute as an NIH FIRST Scholar. By combining over a decade of experience developing patient-derived in vitro models of the brain with expertise in profiling the postmortem human brain at the single-cell resolution, the Victor lab will launch at Sinai in the Fall of 2024. Through the study of developmental programs that are critical for the assembly of functional networks, the Victor lab aims to elucidate neuronal network remodeling programs that can be re-activated in the face of neurodegeneration or boosted to sustain network activity in neurodegenerative diseases.

Dr. Victor was born and raised in Recife, Brazil. His family moved to Florida when he was 15 years old. His wife is also a Neuroscientist, and together they have two wonderful little boys.