Matt GevaertFounder

United States - Greenville, South Carolina

Passionately building a world where patients with brain cancer, ovarian cancer, and more indications to come respond to the drugs they are treated with, through accurate prediction of their individual responses prior to treatment.

Dr. Matthew (Matt) Gevaert is the Chief Executive Officer, a Co-Founder and a Board Member of Kiyatec, Inc.

Under Matt’s leadership Kiyatec is disrupting cancer therapy selection with patient-specific prediction of response to drug therapies, prior to treatment. Kiyatec achieves this by measuring the response of individual patient live cancer cells with its innovative 3D cell culture technology platform, with success demonstrated in peer-reviewed publications for multiple tumor types that score >95th percentile in on-line impact.

Through a dedicated focus on direct relevance to cancer patients, Kiyatec has successfully attracted multiple rounds of private sector investment, developed its 3D Predict™ and KIYA-Predict™ ex vivo 3D cell culture platforms, and published the first functional precision oncology assay with clinically-correlated prospective predictive therapeutic response evidence in multiple tumor types.

To-date, Kiyatec has been awarded more than $5M of competitively awarded federal funding including contracts from the National Cancer Institute, cultivated clinical collaborations at leading national cancer institutions and built productive relationships with premier biopharmaceutical companies developing the cancer therapies of the future.

Matt is a graduate of the University of Waterloo (B.Sc., Chemistry) and of Clemson University (M.S. and Ph.D., Bioengineering). He serves on a number of professional and community boards and occasionally teaches an MBA graduate course in technology entrepreneurship for professional business students.