Tumor Microenvironment

Alexander Birbrair received his Bachelor’s 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 Frenette’s 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.

• Neuregulin signaling in the tumor microenvironment.- HGF/c-Met signalling in the tumor microenvironment.- Eph/ephrin signaling in the tumor microenvironment.- Src signaling in cancer and tumor microenvironment.- Purinergic signaling within the tumor microenvironment.- TGFβ signalling in the tumor microenvironment.- Wnt Signaling in the Tumor Microenvironment.- Lysophospholipid Signalling and the Tumour Microenvironment.- Adenosine signaling in the tumor microenvironment.- Androgen signaling in the tumor microenvironment.- Index.