Alexandre Orthwein, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
Emory University School of Medicine
A cancer biologist and molecular immunologist, Dr. Orthwein obtained his MSC and PhD from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Montreal. There, he developed a strong interest in B-cell biology and hematological malignancies by studying a critical mutagenic enzyme called Activation Induced Deaminase in the laboratory of Dr. Javier M. Di Noia at the IRCM in Montreal, Canada.
He subsequently joined the laboratory of Dr. Daniel Durocher at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, Canada for his postdoctoral training. There, he investigated the interplay between the cell cycle and the signaling/repair of DNA double-strand breaks, the most cytotoxic DNA lesions. In 2014, he became the recipient of the Young Canadian Cell Biologist of the Year awarded by the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences.
He joined the Department of Radiation Oncology as an Assistant Professor in 2022.
