Alexander Muir, PhD profile page

Alexander moved to Chicago for university and then completed his PhD in Biochemistry at University of California, Berkeley where he worked to understand how lipid metabolism allows microbes to survive environmental challenges. He then moved to MIT for postdoctoral training where he studied how cancer cells adapt their metabolism to cope with microenvironmental stress. Since 2019, he has been at the University of Chicago, where his team has developed techniques to measure the chemistry of the pancreatic tumor microenvironment and how this affects pancreatic cancer biology and response to therapy.