Jonathan Steven Alexander

Dr. Jonathan Steven Alexander is Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA. He received his B.S. in Biology from Boston University, Boston, MA, and his Ph.D. in Vascular Biology also from Boston University, working on mechanisms of endothelial barrier and inflammation. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Pulmonary Medicine/Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, and later before joining the faculty at LSUHSC-S in 1994. As an endothelial biologist working on mechanisms of central nervous system injury in stroke, Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease at LSUHSC-Shreveport, Dr. Alexander has developed assays, models and methods for evaluating neuron, astrocyte and endothelial mechanisms in different forms of neurovascular inflammation. He is an executive member of the International Society for Neurovascular Disease (ISNVD).In addition to expertise in animal models of stroke and MS, the Alexander lab develops novel assays for 2nd messenger biology, immunohistochemistry, immunoblotting, ELISAs and kinase assays using cellular, molecular and behavioral models of inflammation.Dr. Alexander is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and the author of several patents, one of which is licensed to Aphios Corporation and others which were co-invented with scientists and engineers at Aphios Corporation.