Alex Dementiev

Dr. Alex Dementiev currently serves as a Senior Research Scientist at Shamrock Structures where he utilizes his expertise in protein analytical chemistry, macromolecular crystallography and protein-small molecule and protein-protein structure analyses. He also has expertise working with membrane proteins. Prior to his time at Shamrock, Dr. Dementiev served as Assistant Research Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics where his research focused on structural and biochemical studies of proto-oncogene K-Ras-4B variant and the regulation and inhibitory mechanism of serine protease inhibitors, including several blood coagulation factors. Before UIC, he worked as a visiting scientist at Argonne National Laboratory in the Gene Expression and Differentiation Group studying the characterization of protein factors involved in human obesity.

He has also served as Senior Scientist in the Laboratory of Protein Engineering at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Center for Bioengineering. Dr. Dementiev holds an M.S. in Molecular and Chemical Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a Ph.D in Structural Molecular Biology from the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology.