The neuropathology of obstructive sleep apnoea
Year of award: 2014
Grantholders
Dr Ivana Rosenzweig
King's College London
Project summary
Ivana obtained her MD from the University of Zagreb and her PhD from the University of Cambridge. She is a consultant neuropsychiatrist, having trained and worked in university teaching hospitals in Cambridge and London. She has also taught physiology to medical students as a Bye-Fellow of Selwyn College and worked at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. With her colleagues at the Department of Neuroimaging at King's College London and the Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy's Hospital, she is currently exploring the role of sleep and hypoxia on brain plasticity, with a particular focus on the neurobiology and cognitive sequelae of various sleep disorders such as sleep apnoea.