Alexander Schmitz

Flow Cytometry Core Manager

Education: Doctoral degree in natural science (Dr. rer. nat.)

Work area: Flow Cytometry

Scientific work/focus area

• Pathogenesis of haematological diseases including B-cell specific malignancies
• Mechanisms behind the initiation and development as well as intrinsic or acquired treatment resistance of malignant haematological cancers
• “Minimal residual disease” (MRD) in B-cell malignancies like multiple myeloma (MM)
•  Phenotypic and functional heterogeneity among cancer cells with the focus on prospective gene analysis of clonal subsets in relapsed B-cell malignancies

Technical work/focus area

• Flow cytometry (MFC) and fluorescent activated cell sorting (FACS)

E-mail: alex.schmitz@rn.dk