Alexander Pertsemlidis's Biography

Alexander Pertsemlidis, Associate Professor, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Dr. Pertsemlidis obtained his doctoral degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He completed postdoctoral fellowships in computational biology and genetics at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He is currently at the Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute at the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio, where he is Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Cellular and Structural Biology and director of the Cancer Biology Discipline in the Integrated Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program. His laboratory investigates the roles of non-coding RNAs in cancer pathogenesis and in modulating cancer cell drug response and seeks to identify those that are diagnostic markers or therapeutic targets or agents.