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Alexander Muir is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago specializing in cancer metabolism. His research seeks to understand how metabolic adaptations allow cancer cells to grow and proliferate, thereby causing tumor growth. Muir’s work utilizes metabolomics techniques to catalog the nutrients available in the tumor microenvironment and how these nutrients fuel cancer cell growth. His insights into tumor metabolism aim to define the metabolic pathways that sustain cancer and improve therapeutic strategies. Muir completed his postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focusing on tumor metabolism after earning his PhD in Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also actively involved in funding research projects aimed at targeting the nutrient microenvironment in therapies for pancreatic cancer.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Research focused on tumor metabolism leading to an understanding of how cancer cells adapt metabolically.
Department of Philosophy