Prof. Cristina Sena

Cristina M Sena is a professor of Physiology in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Coimbra, where she studies the pathophysiology of diabetes and its complications using diabetic animal models. She has characterized several antioxidants and lipid-lowering therapies in endothelial dysfunction as well as in renal and hepatic functions in type 2 diabetes animal models. In recent years, her research interests have extended to obesity-induced vascular dysfunction and the underlying mechanisms in the vascular wall. She has a strong background in cellular, imaging, and electrophysiology techniques, and developed the vascular biology laboratory in the Faculty of Medicine, where vascular function in different blood vessels is evaluated ex vivo. Cristina M Sena has been the principal investigator of 10 funded projects. Over the last five years, she has been the Principal Investigator on 2 externally funded Research Grants. In Web of Science, she has 116 publications, an h-index of 27, and 2462 citations. In Google Scholar, she has 117 publications, an h-index of 32, and 3840 citations.