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Alexander Michkov, PhD. MS
INSTRUCTOR, SCIENCES
Alexander Michkov, Ph.D., M.Sc., is an Instructor of Biological Sciences for United Nursing College in Murrieta, California. Prior to joining UNC, Dr. Michkov taught and conducted research in biological sciences at internationally and nationally recognized colleges, universities, and research institutions such as UC Riverside (UCR), UC San Diego (UCSD), Mt. San Jacinto College (MSJC), Riverside Community College (RCC), and Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France, over a 20 year span.
Dr. Michkov earned his Ph.D. from the UCR in Molecular Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics. Dr. Michkov was a postdoctoral scientist at the UCSD Department of Pharmacology, where he studied expression patterns of human GPCRs and G-protein signaling pathways in lung tissue and the primary pulmonary cell cultures. Dr. Michkov worked in the UCSD- Bristol-Myers Squibb joint project on discovering disease-relevant GPCR targets and therapeutics using a combination of GPCR expression data with validation studies (e.g., signaling and functional activities assays). Dr. Michkov is a passionate educator and provides hands-on training to undergraduate and graduate students in colleges, universities, and research institutions on molecular biology, microbiology, genetics, and bioinformatics. He has various research publications and presentations on genome editing, RNA/DNA sequencing, G-protein signaling, and discovering new therapeutic targets (GPCR).