Aiste Jekabsone's Biography

Aiste Jekabsone, Researcher, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

Aiste Jekabsone is a research fellow at the Neuroscience Institute of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LUHS) located in Kaunas, Lithuania. She received her BSc in Biology and MSc in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. Aiste obtained her PhD in Biomedical science from LUHS, were she investigated the role of mitochondria and nitric oxide in myocardial ischemia-induced cell death. As a Postdoc fellow at the University of Cambridge (UK), Biochemistry department, she was working on nitric oxide signaling pathways in stroke models and investigated the role of microglial cells in Alzheimer‘s disease. After a scientific career break working as a social worker in a family style orphanage, she currently focus on the development of more efficient in vitro and ex vivo models for neurodegenerative pathology investigation and drug testing.