Mahsa Shanaki Bavarsad, PhD

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.