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.
With a background in cellular and molecular biology, Irene received her bachelor in medicine with honours from the Junior Scientific Masterclass. She currently combines her master in medicine with doctoral research as MD/PhD student at the department of Cardiology and department of Genetics. During her research, she went on an internship to SciLifeLab Stockholm in the group of prof. dr. Joakim Lundeberg and dr. Stefania Giacomello to learn new techniques for tissue analysis.
