Matthew Hayden, MD, PhD

Matt Hayden headshot

Undergraduate:
Oberlin College

Medical School:
Yale School of Medicine

Graduate School:
Yale School of Medicine (Doctor of Philosophy)

Post-Doctorate:
Columbia University Medical Center

Dr. Hayden earned his B.A. in Biology from Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, in 1994. In 1998, he joined the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology as a research assistant, where he investigated HIV drug resistance and viral fitness. He matriculated into the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at Yale School of Medicine in 2000, conducting his doctoral research in the Department of Immunobiology. Following completion of his Ph.D., Dr. Hayden pursued postdoctoral research at Columbia University. He subsequently joined the Departments of Dermatology and Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University Medical Center, where he held the position of George Henry Fox Assistant Professor of Dermatology. In 2017, Dr. Hayden joined the Department of Dermatology at Dartmouth Health and the Geisel School of Medicine. He currently serves as Vice Chair of Research in Dermatology and is a member of the Dartmouth Cancer Center’s Signaling, Genomes, and Networks Research Program.

Personal Interests:
Gardening, Cooking, Sailing and Tinkering

Selected Publications:

  • Armstrong DA, Hudson TR, Hodge CA, Hampton TH, Howell AL, Hayden MS. PlmCas12e (CasX2) cleavage of CCR5: impact of guide RNA spacer length and PAM sequence on cleavage activity.  RNA Biology. 2023 Dec 31; 20(1) 296-305.
  • Baker C & Hayden MS.  Gene editing in dermatology: Harnessing CRISPR for the treatment of cutaneous disease.  F1000 Research. 2020 Oct 7; 9(281).
  • Grinberg-Bleyer Y, Oh H, Desrichard A, Bhatt DM, Caron R, Chan TA, Schmid RM, Klein U, Hayden MS, and Ghosh. NF-κB c-Rel Is Crucial for the Regulatory T Cell Immune Checkpoint in Cancer.  Cell. 2017 Sep 7; 170(6):1096-108.

 

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