Contact Details
- Phone
- +64 3 479 5298
- hod.pharmacology@otago.ac.nz
- Position
- Professor and Head of Department
- Department
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Qualifications
- BSc(Hons) PhD
- Research summary
- Pharmacological Targets in Cardiovascular and Renal Disease
Research
Contact details
Departmental contact email: hod.pharmacology@otago.ac.nz
Research or teaching contact email: ivan.sammut@otago.ac.nz
Research focus
Interests: cardiomyopathies, ischaemic heart disease, heart failure, ischaemic neurodegeneration, mitochondrial dysfunction and heme oxygenase
Main areas of Research:
- Cardiac and Renal failure following MI.
- Apoptosis and Mitochondrial Dysfunction Consequent to Ischaemia-Reperfusion Injury in Organ Grafts/Vascular Ligation Models.
- Protection Of Myocardial Function and Mitochondrial Energetics from Ischaemia-Reperfusion Injury.
- Mitochondrial Pathophysiology in Neurodegeneration and Stroke Injury
- Neuroprotective Effects of Pharmacological Agents following Hypoxia-Ischaemia-induced Brain Damage.
- Cardiovascular Effects following Hypoxia-Ischaemia-Induced Brain Damage.
- Vascular Pathophysiology