Alexander J. Dwyer
Email: dwyer171@umn.edu
Entering Class: 2016
Education:
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Biology-Neurobiology and Music Composition majors
B.S., 2016
MSTP Student Governance:
- Student Advisory Committee, 2016-2017
Thesis Advisor: Brian Fife, Ph.D.
Publications (pubmed)
Dirice E, Kahraman S, De Jesus DF, El Ouaamari A, Basile G, Baker RL, Yigit B, Piehowski PD, Kim MJ, Dwyer AJ, Ng RWS, Schuster C, Vethe H, Martinov T, Ishikawa Y, Teo AKK, Smith RD, Hu J, Haskins K, Serwold T, Qian WJ, Fife BT, Kissler S, Kulkarni RN. Increased β-cell proliferation before immune cell invasion prevents progression of type 1 diabetes. Nat Metab. 2019 May;1(5):509-518.
Martinov T, Swanson LA, Breed ER, Tucker CG, Dwyer AJ, Johnson JK, Mitchell JS, Sahli NL, Wilson JC, Singh LM, Hogquist KA, Spanier JA, Fife BT. Programmed Death-1 Restrains the Germinal Center in Type 1 Diabetes. J Immunol. 2019 Aug 15;203(4):844-852.
Work prior to the UMN MSTP:
McNeel DG, Chen YH, Gulley JL, Dwyer AJ, Madan RA, Carducci MA, DiPaola RS. Randomized phase II trial of docetaxel with or without PSA-TRICOM vaccine in patients with castrate-resistant metastatic prostate cancer: A trial of the ECOG-ACRIN cancer research group (E1809). Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2015;11(10):2469-74. PMCID: PMC4635940