Ilse Daehn, Ph.D., SAB Member
Dr. Ilse Daehn is a molecular and cell biologist with expertise in DNA damage and oxidative stress. She obtained her undergraduate in Biotechnology (Honors) and was awarded her Ph.D from the Flinders University of South Australia in 2008. She then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at Cancer Research UK, London before joining the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2010. She became faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2013. Her primary research interests are to understand the early molecular events involving mitochondria that occur and lead to chronic kidney disease. Her work has provided a fundamental paradigm shift in our current understanding of chronic kidney disease development and is now applying this knowledge to seek for biomarkers in the urine for early detection of disease and its progression. Dr. Daehn is also interested in exploring and evaluating the genetic susceptibility of individuals in the community to developing progressive kidney disease.