Alexander Kharazi MD, PhD

Dr. Kharazi is a physician by training. He finished Medical School in 1978 in Kiev, Ukraine, where he earned his MD degree in internal medicine and pathology. From 1978 to 1981 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Kiev Institute of Gerontology. Dr. Kharazi received extensive training in cell biology and immunology, including tissue culture and subsequently earned his PhD in immunology. He studied age-related pathological changes of the immune system in mice and humans and his research interests included the possibility of restoring immunity in aged mice using stem cells from young adult mice. Dr. Kharazi was one of the first to discover the inhibitory effects of old thymus in mice and later published on this subject.