Professor of Bioenginering
University of Texas At Arlington
After completing his undergraduate in Physics at Oxford University, UK and his graduate work in medical Physics at McMaster University, Canada, Dr. Alexandrakis was a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School where he worked on quantitative intravital two-photon microscopy techniques for the analysis of barriers to drug delivery in tumor-bearing mice. He then pursued further postdoctoral work at UCLA where he contributed to the development of a combined optical/PET mouse imaging system and was also exposed to clinical multi-modality imaging. In collaboration with faculty at University of Texas Southwestern and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Dr. Alexandrakis novel nanosensing technologies for the characterization of protein-protein interactions relevant to cancer immunotherapy, and the quantification of coating and loading consistency of therapeutic nanoparticles, such as viruses for gene therapy.