Department of Medicine

Description:
Stressed brain cells in an aged mouse

Bio
Dr. Ilse Daehn is a molecular and cell biologist with expertise in DNA damage and oxidative stress. She obtained her undergraduate in Biotechnology (Honors) and was awarded her Ph.D from the Flinders University of South Australia. She then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at CRUK, London before joining Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2010. She has been faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai since 2013. Her primary research interests are to understand the early molecular events involving mitochondria that occur and lead to chronic kidney disease.

Research focus: Our research focuses in understanding kidney disease pathogenesis and recently we have been particularly intrigued about the kidney-brain axis