Chester Mathis

{{short description|American chemist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Chester A. Mathis | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image =  | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name =  | birth_date =  | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | pronounce = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = | workplaces = {{nowrap|University of Pittsburgh Medical Center}} | patrons = | education = {{nowrap|Humboldt State University B.Sc. {{small|(1972)}} }}<br>UC Davis Ph.D. {{small|(1979)}} | alma_mater = | thesis_title =  | thesis_url =  | thesis_year =  | doctoral_advisor =  | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease<ref name=MetLife>{{Cite web|url=http://mlfawards.afar.org/docs/2016Edition_MetLifeFoundationAwards_PastWinners.pdf|title=MetLife Foundation Awards for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013093256/http://mlfawards.afar.org/docs/2016Edition_MetLifeFoundationAwards_PastWinners.pdf|archivedate=13 October 2018}}</ref> {{small|(2004)}}<br>Potamkin Prize {{small|(2008)}}<br>Reagan Institute Award {{small|(2009)}} | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }} '''Chester Mathis''' is an American chemist who is currently the Distinguished Professor of Radiology at University of Pittsburgh and holds the UPMC Endowed Chair of PET Research.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/story/university-names-radiology%E2%80%99s-mathis-distinguished-professor |title=Distinguished Professor |publisher=pitt.edu |accessdate=May 4, 2017}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TQUbTSIAAAAJ&hl=en |title=Chester Mathis |accessdate=May 4, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pharmacology.us/Faculty/ChesterMathis |title=Chester Mathis |publisher=pharmacology.us |accessdate=May 4, 2017}}</ref>

He is known for is work with William E. Klunk on a PET radiotracer for imaging amyloid, a protein linked to neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s. His efforts led to the creation of a novel category of high-efficacy radiopharmaceutical agents, for example Pittsburgh Compound-B (PiB), which can be used to assess beta-amyloid in the living human brain using PET scanning, and which is a fluorescent analog of thioflavin T.<ref name=":0" /> For his work on Alzheimer's disease he has received the Metlife Foundation Award (2004)<ref name="Metlife">{{cite web| url=http://mlfawards.afar.org/docs/2016Edition_MetLifeFoundationAwards_PastWinners.pdf| publisher=Metlife Foundation| title=2016 Metlife Foundation Awards for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease| access-date=18 October 2018| archive-date=13 October 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013093256/http://mlfawards.afar.org/docs/2016Edition_MetLifeFoundationAwards_PastWinners.pdf| url-status=dead}}</ref> and the Potamkin Prize (2008).<ref name="Potamkin">{{cite web | title=Awards History | website=American Academy of Neurology | date=23 September 2017 | url=https://www.aan.com/research-and-awards/awards-history/#anchorlink23 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923145233/https://www.aan.com/research-and-awards/awards-history/#anchorlink23 | archive-date=23 September 2017 | url-status=dead | access-date=31 October 2018}}</ref>

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