Alexey Terskikh

  • Research

    Dr. Terskikh is interested in elucidating the mechanisms underlying self-renewing & differentiation decisions in normal & cancer stem cells.

  • Biography

    Dr. Terskikh earned his Ph.D. at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland in 1996.

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Alexey Terskikh's Research Focus

Brain Cancer, Breast Cancer, Parkinson's Disease

During development and in many adult tissues stem cells are capable of self-renewal or differentiation depending on the extrinsic signals provided by surrounding (e.g. the stem cell niche). Many cancers are thought to be maintained by cancer initiating cells (sometimes called cancer stem cells), which are often hijack stem cell self-renewal mechanisms. The Terskikh laboratory is interested in elucidating molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying self-renewing and differentiation decisions using neural stem cells as a model, in particularly studying how this knowledge can be used to fight cancer.

About Alexey Terskikh

Experience

Alexey Terskikh earned his Ph.D. at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland in 1996, in the laboratory of Prof. J.-P. Mach, where he designed a new type of high-avidity recombinant molecule called Peptabody. He received postdoctoral training with Prof. Irving Weissman at Stanford University, where he discovered a common genetic program between hematopoietic and neural stem cells. Dr. Terskikh holds an Assistant Professor position in the Brain and Mind Institute at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland (2002-2006) and was recruited to Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute as Adjunct Assistant Professor in 2002 and as a full time Assistant Professor in 2006.

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