Alisa Chebotarova, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Molecular Cell Biology and a module co-director for Molecules to Medicine (first semester) at the AUC School of Medicine, SXM. Dr. Chebotarova graduated with an MD in Pediatrics from Luhansk State Medical University in Ukraine in 2008.

Dr. Frederick completed his B.S. in Biology and Microbiology at Kansas University (KU) in Lawrence, Kansas.  (Rock Chalk!).  He then worked in vaccine development and quality assurance for the French Multinational healthcare company, Sanofi.  Later, Dr. Frederick conducted Pharmaceutical Chemistry research at KU in conjunction with scientists at Merck & Co. in Lawrence, KS. He completed his Ph.D. at the Kansas University School of Medicine in Kansas City, KS in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics. Dr. Frederick’s Ph.D. research was on the topic of eukaryotic gene regulation. His research developed a novel system for making targeted gene replacements in a eukaryotic system and characterized unique transcriptional regulatory elements which control expression of the gene encoding glutamate dehydrogenase.