Dr Sandra healy

• Career History 
  
  

  2010-present                       University Teacher, Discipline of Biochemistry, National University of Ireland, Galway

  2008 – 2010                         Senior Scientist, Apoptosis Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway

  2002 – 2007                         Research Scientist, Nerviano Medical Sciences, (formerly Pfizer – NMS was spun off                                                       in 2005)Viale Pasteur,10, Nerviano (MI) 20014, Italy.           

  1999-2001                            Postdoctoral Fellow, Dipartimento di Genetica, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy.             

  1996-1999                            Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, UK.   

  1993-1996                            Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer research                                             UK) Clare Hall labs, London, UK

  1992                                   PhD, Biochemistry, University College Cork, Ireland

  1988                                    BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, University College Cork, Ireland

                 

• Research Interests

Understanding the biological mechanisms that contribute to the development of cancer
Exploiting this knowledge for the development of novel Anti-cancer therapeutics

• Key Publications

Gorman AM, Healy SJ, Jáger R, Samali A.
Stress manamgemnt at the ER:Regulators of ER stress-induced apoptosis.
Pharmacol Ther. 2012 Jun;134(3):306.16

Healy SJ, GormanAM, Mousavi-Shafaei P, Gupta S, Samali A
Targeting the endoplasmic reticulum-stress response as an anticancer strategy.
Eur J Pharmacol. 2009 Dec 25;625(1-3):234-46

Alessia Montagnoli¹, Barbara Valsasina¹, Valter Croci ¹, Maria Menichincheri¹, Sonia Rainoldi¹, Vanessa Marchesi¹, Marcello Tibolla¹, Pierluigi Tenca², Deborah Brotherton³, Clara Albanese¹, Veronica Patton¹, Rachele Alzani¹, Antonella Ciavolella¹, Francesco Sola¹, Antonio Molinari¹, Daniele Volpi¹, Nilla Avanzi¹, Francesco Fiorentini¹, Marina Cattoni¹, Sandra Healy¹, Dario Ballinari¹, Enrico Pesenti¹, Antonella Isacchi¹, Jurgen Moll¹, Aaron Bensimon⁴, Ermes Vanotti and Corrado Santocanale^1,5
A Cdc7 kinase inhibitor restricts initiation of DNA replication and has anti-tumor activity
Nature Chemical Biology 2008 Jun;4(6):357-65

McCarthy TV, Healy JM, Heffron JJ, Lehane M, Deufel T, Lehmann-Horn F, Farrall , Johnson K.
Localization of the malignant hyperthermia susceptibility locus to human chromosome 19q12-13.2.
Nature. 1990 Feb 8;343(6258):562-4.

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