Janet Menzie-suderam PhD

Janet M. Menzie-Suderam, Ph.D., earned her B.S. degree in Biochemistry at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Dr. Menzie-Suderam obtained her M.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, USA, and received her Ph.D., in Integrative Biology with a focus in Neuroscience under the training of Dr. Jang-Yen Wu at Florida Atlantic University, USA. Her doctoral work focused on stroke research and she studied the potential therapeutic effect of the growth factor, granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), in focal cerebral ischemia. After obtaining her Ph.D. in 2016, Dr. Menzie-Suderam transitioned in her postdoctoral research to investigate further the efficacy of G-CSF as a gene therapy intervention for global cerebral ischemia; a disease condition that not only has a direct impact on the brain but is one of the pathological outcomes of cardiopulmonary arrest. Since 2020, Dr. Menzie-Suderam has initiated important novel research projects on mechanisms of protection against myocardial ischemia in collaboration with Dr. Herbert Weissbach.

Dr. Menzie-Suderam's work in the area of protective therapies for cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease has propelled her current research interest to involve the dysfunction of microvasculature in neurological disorders and neurodegenerative diseases. She collaborates with Dr. Claudia Rodrigues in researching the role of endothelial c-Myc, a transcription factor, in the aging brain and in Parkinson's Disease.