Nikitin, Alexander
Associate Professorresearch
research and scholarship focus
- Relationship between stem cells and cancer
- Identification of molecular determinants of metastatic progression
- Role of microenvironment in cancer
- Modeling prostate, breast and ovarian cancers
primary investigator of
- DETERMINANTS OF METASTATIC PROGRESSION | Research Grant
- MODELING OVARIAN CARCINOMA BY DEFINED GENETIC ALTERATIONS | Research Grant
- NYSTEM GRANT FOR INSTITUTIONAL DEVELPOMENT OF STEM CELL RESEARCH CAPABILITY | Research Grant
- RETINOIC ACID, CRABP, AND CANCER | Research Grant
- ROLE OF MIR-34 IN OVARIAN CANCER | Research Grant
- SPORE IN OVARIAN CANCER | Research Grant
research areas
- cancer research | collaborative research area (CALS)
- genetic mouse models | Research Area
- stem cell biology | Research Area
affiliations
head of
- Stem Cell Program (SCP) | research program
faculty appointment in
- Biomedical Sciences (VTBMS) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- Comparative Biomedical Sciences | graduate field
- Environmental Toxicology | graduate field
- Molecular and Integrative Physiology | graduate field
other Cornell affiliations
- Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology (ICET) | research institute
- Mammalian Genomics | NLSI/Genomics focus area
- Section of Anatomic Pathology | clinical section
member of advisory group
- Life Sciences Core Laboratories Center DNA Microarrays Faculty Advisory Group | advisory committee
teaching
teaches
- BIOG 2990 - Introduction to Research Methods in Biology (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- BIOG 4990 - Independent Undergraduate Research in Biology (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- TOX 7010 - Mouse Pathology and Transgenesis (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- TOX 8900 - Master's Thesis and Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- TOX 9900 - Doctoral Thesis and Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- VTBMS 7010 - Mouse Pathology and Transgenesis (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- BIOG 2990 - Introduction to Research Methods in Biology (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- TOX 8900 - Master's Thesis and Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- TOX 9900 - Doctoral Thesis and Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- VTBMS 7010 - Mouse Pathology and Transgenesis (TBA -) | fall 2008 class
service
event host
background
educational background
- M.D., Internal Medicine, Pavlov First Medical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1983
- Ph.D., Pathology, Petrov Research Institute of Oncology, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1988
featured in
- Cornell receives almost $2 million from New York state for stem cell research | Cornell Chronicle feature