DrShona Pfeiffer
Senior Lecturer
Physiology and Medical Physics
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- Senior LecturerPhysiology 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 EducationRoyal College of Surgeons in Ireland25 Dec 2016
- Ph.D., NeuroscienceUniversity College Dublin25 Dec 2011
- B.Sc. (Hons), BiochemistryUniversity College Dublin25 Dec 2007
RESEARCH SUB-AREAS
- Diabetes
- Neurological Diseases
- Neuroscience
- Stroke
- Therapeutics
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (UNSDGS)
- 3 Good Health and Well Being