Associate Director MedSci Leader US Self Care Pain
Kenvue Brands LLC
Fort Washington, Pennsylvania
Dr. Mathew is Associate Director of Medical Sciences & Medical Lead for Pain at Kenvue, with over 30 years of basic and translational research experience including clinical trials, drug target and biomarker development in pain and cancer. Within the J&J and Kenvue organizations, Robin has held leadership roles in Medical Affairs, Clinical Research, External Innovation, and early development, and has directed multiple flagship clinical trials in Europe and the United States.
Robin is credited with the seminal discovery of the first mechanistic connection between autophagy (a cellular homeostatic pathway), genomic stress, and cancer initiation, and has authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications in high-impact scientific journals such as Nature, Cell, Cancer Cell, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) etc. with over 15,750 citations to date. He is also the recipient of the United Nations Visiting Research Scholarship and the NJ State Award for Scientific Excellence among many others and has served on the editorial panel for several scientific journals with 3 US patents to his credit.
Robin holds a PhD in Biochemistry with post-doctoral research experiences at Princeton University, Rutgers and UCSF covering a broad range of disciplines including molecular biology, proteomics, metabolomics, and clinical pharmacology. He shares a strong passion for coaching & mentoring and engages in popular science lectures in his spare time.
Thursday, September 4, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PST