Mahsa Shanaki Bavarsad

Mahsa Shanaki Bavarsad, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar
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Dr. Shanaki Bavarsad received her PhD degree from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain. Her PhD thesis was about the effects of CNS local production of IL-10 on neuroprotection and the inflammatory response (microglial activation and leukocyte recruitment) associated with a traumatic brain injury, by generating a new transgenic animal that overproduces this cytokine under the control of the GFAP promoter on astrocytes.