George Alexandrakis's Biography

George Alexandrakis, Professor, Bioengineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington

Dr. Alexandrakis performed his undergraduate work in Physics at Oxford University. He then obtained Master’s and PhD degrees in Medical Physics from McMaster University in Canada. He was postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and UCLA before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Arlington. His current interests are focused on developing ultra-sensitive nanosensors for screening protein-ligand interactions in cancer immunotherapy and on novel nanopore-based methods to test the quality gene therapy vehicles and other therapeutic nanoparticles.