For her MD-PhD research, Irene studies the role of inflammation on individual cell level in ischemic heart disease. Through a multi-omic approach and the use of state-of-the art techniques on various tissues she aims to generate a multidimensional understanding of the inflammatory response. Using this, she aims to increase our current understanding of ischemic heart disease which can be used to identify new therapeutic targets.
After completing her bachelors in cellular and molecular biology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and bachelors in medicine at the University of Groningen, Irene currently combines her masters in medicine with doctoral research as MD-PhD student. She will be going abroad to the SciLifeLab Stockholm in the group of prof. dr. Joakim Lundeberg and dr. Stefania Giacomello to extend her knowledge and learn new techniques for tissue analysis.
