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).

• Adipocytes in the tumour microenvironment.- Fibroblasts in the tumor microenvironment.- Mesenchymal stem cells in the tumor microenvironment.- Hepatic stellate cells in liver tumor.- Pancreatic stellate cells: The key orchestrator of the pancreatic tumor microenvironment.- Endothelial cells in the tumor microenvironment.- Lymphatic endothelial cell progenitors in the tumor microenvironment.- Oligodendrocyte progenitors in the tumor microenvironment.- Index.