Mary Fossey

Supervisor

Dr. Chris West

Current Program

Biography

Mary completed her BSc (2017) and defended her MSc in Kinesiology (2019) at UBC. Other than research, Mary loves being a teaching assistant for BIOL204 (vertebrate anatomy and structure). Outside of academia, Mary enjoys skiing, biking, walking and sewing.

Current Research

Mary’s research focuses on the effects of spinal cord injury on the heart on a physiological-to-molecular spectrum. Currently, Mary is more specifically investigating the effects of spinal cord injury on the heart transcriptome and testing the efficacy of emergent cardiovascular therapies on modulating cardiac gene expression.

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