Soheila Karimi
Professor
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Canada
Biography
B.Sc. (Animal Sciences) Univ. of Shiraz, 1988 • M.Sc. (Anatomy), Univ. of Tehran, 1991 • Ph.D. (Developmental Neurobiology), Univ. of Saskatchewan, 2001 • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Toronto Western Research Institute, 2001-2006 • Associate Neuroscientist, Toronto Western Research Institute, 2006-2009 • Assistant Professor (Neurosurgery and Anatomy), Univ. of Toronto, 2006-2009 • Assistant Professor (Physiology and Regenerative Medicine Program), Univ. of Manitoba, 2010-2016 • Associate Professor (Physiology & Pathophysiology and Regenerative Medicine Program), Univ. of Manitoba, 2016 - present
Research Interest
Spinal cord injury Neural stem cells Regenerative Medicine Neural repair and plasticity Neuroinflammation and astrogliosis in neural stem cell regulation Mechanisms of spinal cord gliogenesis Directed in vivo oligodendroglial differentiation Preclinical therapeutic interventions in spinal cord injury Stem cell/Neural tissue culture studies
