Mina Kafashi

PhD Student


Supervisor

Dr. Chris West

Current Program
PhD
Education

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