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Alex B. Kleinpeter, Ph.D.

  • Center for Cancer Research
  • National Cancer Institute

RESEARCH SUMMARY

Alex Kleinpeter earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry and structural biology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Dr. Chad Petit’s lab.  He is characterizing the role of the small-molecule metabolite inositol hexakisphosphate (IP6), a critical host cofactor in HIV-1 replication, in facilitating the formation of the immature HIV-1 Gag lattice and mature capsids.  Alex was awarded Intramural AIDS Research Fellowships from NIH in 2021 and 2020 to support his research, and he won a travel award for his outstanding presentation at the Fall HIV/AIDS & Cancer Think Tank Meeting.  In 2023, Alex successfully competed for a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence (PI) Award from the NIH and in 2024, Alex was the recipient of The Eighteenth Andy Kaplan Award. Alex along with others was awarded a 2024 Federal Technology Transfer Award. In 2024, Alex won a travel award from the HIV DRP for one of the two best presentations by NCI fellows at the 2024 HIV DRP Think Tank Meeting.

Areas of Expertise

Virology
Structural Biology
Cell Biology
HIV Inhibitors
HIV Assembly And Maturation
Host Factors