

Tom Mathews, Ph.D.
Thomas P. Mathews earned his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Virginia and stayed to complete a Ph.D. in bioorganic chemistry. Following his thesis work, Dr. Mathews pursued postdoctoral fellowships at The Scripps Research Institute and Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he studied lipid metabolism and lipid signaling networks. In 2014, Dr. Mathews was awarded a fellowship through Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop new tests for environmental and industrial toxins at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. After completing his fellowship at CDC, Dr. Mathews joined Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) in 2017 as a senior research scientist in the Morrison Lab and joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 2020.
In 2023, Dr. Mathews became the Assistant Director of the CRI Metabolomics Facility. The Facility uses mass spectrometry to perform untargeted metabolomics, metabolite quantification, lipidomics, and stable isotope tracing. Together, these approaches provide a comprehensive picture of how metabolic networks drive disease pathogenicity, maintain tissue function, or signal transduction between cells.