Sandra M Cardona
The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Biography
Sandra M Cardona is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Department of Biology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her career in neurodegeneration started at the Cleveland Clinic studying the biology of the CX3CR1 receptor in microglia during models of systemic inflammation and Parkinson disease. After receiving her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Genetics in 2006 at Kent State University (Ohio), she continued her Post-doctoral training at The University of Texas at San Antonio where she developed a new autoimmunity model of type-1 diabetes aimed to investigate the role of CX3CR1 receptor during diabetic retinopathy. Currently, she is characterizing humanized mice expressing the human CX3CR1 variant receptor in neuroinflammatory models of multiple sclerosis and diabetes and interested in the role of CX3CR1 in the differentiation and biology of astrocytes. She is author of 12 scientific contributions and Member of ASN, SfN and AHA.