The following is reprinted from the October 10 issue of the UI Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Holden Highlights newsletter. Investigator Spotlight: Karima Ait-Aissa, PhD Research Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine – Cardiovascular Medicine Program Affiliation: Free Radical Metabolism and Imaging Karima Ait-Aissa is originally from Bejaia, Algeria, in North Africa. She is the oldest of […]
Karima Ait-Aissa, PhD, assistant research professor in Cardiovascular Medicine, received a three-year, $231,000 Career Development Award from the American Heart Association (AHA). A member of the lab of Isabella Grumbach, MD, PhD, Ait-Aissa plans to examine the mechanisms that lead to radiation-induced blood-brain barrier damage, a major contributor of cognitive dysfunction. “As a young investigator, […]
Karima Ait-Aissa, PhD, associate in Cardiovascular Medicine, received a $30,000 American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant from the University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her project, titled “New Approaches to Mitigate Radiation Therapy-Induced Cognitive Impairment,” aims to take a step toward preventing morbidity as a result of radiation therapy. With this seed grant, Ait-Aissa […]