Tumor Microenvironment: Molecular Players Part B

About

Alexander Birbrair received his Bachelors Biomedical degree from Santa Cruz State University in Brazil. He moved to North Carolina where he finished his PhD in Neuroscience under the mentorship of Osvaldo Delbono. Then he joined as a posdoc in Stem Cell Biology at Paul Frenettes laboratory at Albert Einstein School of Medicine. In 2016 he was appointed faculty at Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil where he started his own lab. His laboratory is interested in understanding how the cellular components of different tissues function and control disease progression. His group explores the roles of specific cell populations in the tissue microenvironment by using state-of-the-art techniques. His research is funded by the Serrapilheira Institute CNPq CAPES and FAPEMIG. In 2018 Alexander was elected affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) and in 2019 he was elected member of the Global Young Academy (GYA). He is the Editor-in-Chief of Current Tissue Microenvironment Reports and associate editor of Molecular Biotechnology. Alexander also serves in the editorial board of several other international journals: Stem Cell Reviews and Reports Stem Cell Research Stem Cells and Development and Histology and Histopathology.