DrShona Pfeiffer

Senior Lecturer

Physiology and Medical Physics

  • Senior Lecturer
    Physiology and Medical Physics
  • RCSI, Physiology & Medical Physics, York House - York Street, Dublin 2

BIOGRAPHY

Dr Pfeiffer is a Lecturer and Principle Investigator in the Department of Physiology & Medical Physics, RCSI University of Medical & Health Sciences. Dr Pfeiffer focuses on translational collaborative research in clinically relevant settings for the development of diagnostic, prognostic and novel protective agents in clinical intervention for neuroprotection in ischaemic stroke and in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Her main research interests are gene regulation during energetic stress as biomarkers and therapeutic targets in the treatment of neuronal injury and diabetes mellitus.

DEGREES

  • PG Dip. Health Professions Education, Medical Education
    Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland25 Dec 2016
  • Ph.D., Neuroscience
    University College Dublin25 Dec 2011
  • B.Sc. (Hons), Biochemistry
    University College Dublin25 Dec 2007

RESEARCH SUB-AREAS

  • Diabetes
  • Neurological Diseases
  • Neuroscience
  • Stroke
  • Therapeutics

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (UNSDGS)

  • 3 Good Health and Well Being

RESEARCH CLUSTERS