PhD Student
Supervisor
Dr. Chris West
Current Program
PhDEducation
Mina graduated with a master’s degree at Razi University in Iran.
Awards
Faculty of Medicine Graduate Award and President’s Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award.
Biography
Mina is passionate about playing tennis, maintaining an active lifestyle at the gym, reading, and music.
Current Research
Mina’s doctoral research focuses on examining mesenteric vasculature autoregulation in naive and animal models with high-thoracic spinal cord injury. She investigates the role of the sympathetic nervous system in this process, as well as the interplay between the sympathetic nervous system, vascular resistance, conductance, and transduction. In the next phase, she will explore how hypoxia and hypercapnia impact these parameters in vivo and in vitro.
Contact
mkafashi@student.ubc.ca