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Dr. Alexander Muir is an Assistant Professor in the Biological Sciences Division at the University of Chicago. He earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2015. His research focuses on cancer metabolism, examining how metabolic adaptations enable cancer cells to grow and proliferate, thus contributing to tumor growth. Muir employs metabolomics techniques to catalog nutrients and understand the microenvironment of tumors. He is actively exploring the biochemical underpinnings of cancer cell growth, with interests including cancer lung, cancer pancreas, cellular proliferation, mass spectrometry, and metabolomics. His work includes investigating metabolic limitations within the tumor microenvironment and using CRISPR gene editing to determine the nutrients consumed by cancer cells.
Department of Philosophy