
Dr Eva Szegezdi
Senior Council Member
Eva Szegezdi is a Research Lecturer in Cancer Biology and principal investigator at the Apoptosis Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Dr. Szegezdi received her Ph.D. in medical science in 2000 studying cell death signalling at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. She joined the Cell Stress and Apoptosis Research laboratory led by Prof. Afshin Samali at the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2001 to study endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced cell death in heart and pancreatic cells and later death receptor signal transduction in cancer. She established her research group focusing on systems biology of death receptor signal transduction in cancer in 2010.
Current research in her laboratory focuses on signal transduction networks in cancer cells. Particular focus is the tumour-microenvironment in leukaemia and to identify a mechanism how the microenvironment can be altered to reject leukemic cells. Eva Szegezdi also acts as the founding director of Blood Cancer Biobank Ireland, director of the MSc programme in Cancer Research in NUIG and co-ordinator of the H2020-RISE programme, DISCOVER.
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