Biography:Shanta Persaud

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Short description: Diabetes researcher and academic

Shanta Jean Persaud is a diabetes researcher and academic.[1][2] She is professor of diabetes and endocrinology at King's College London, England.[3]

Biography

Persaud obtained a BSc degree in physiology and pharmacology and a PhD in the area of islets of langerhans. She started working at King's College London in 1989. Her current research focuses in the area of islet β-cells, receptors in islet function, and insulin secretagogues.

Shanta started working at KCL in 1989. She is also Head of Department at the Department of Diabetes, and Deputy Head of Department at the Department of Physiology at KCL, UK. She has obtained over 47 research grants worth over £5 million and supervised over 19 students.[4] According to Scopus, she has published over 198 scientific research documents with 5677 citations, and has an h-index of 42.[5]

Selected publications

  • Faria, Alyssa; Persaud, Shanta J (2017). "Cardiac oxidative stress in diabetes: Mechanisms and therapeutic potential". Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 172: 50–62.[6]
  • Atanes P., Ruz-Maldonado I., Olaniru O.E., Persaud S.J. (2020). "Assessing Mouse Islet Function". In: King A. (eds) Animal Models of Diabetes. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2128. Humana, New York, NY.[7]
  • Altaf Al-Romaiyan, Bo Liu, Shanta Persaud, Peter Jones (2020). "A novel Gymnema sylvestre extract protects pancreatic beta-cells from cytokine-induced apoptosis". PHYTOTHERAPY RESEARCH. 34, 1, p. 161-172.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Persaud, Shanta Jean (1989) (in English). Intracellular signalling in the regulation of insulin release from rat islets of Langerhans. OCLC 1124155494. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/. 
  2. ↑ "Over £6.8 million committed to new research projects across UK in the last year" (in en). https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about_us/news/6.8-million-on-new-research. 
  3. ↑ "Professor Shanta Persaud" (in en-GB). https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/shanta-persaud. 
  4. ↑ "Shanta Persaud - Research Portal, King's College, London". https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/shanta.persaud.html. 
  5. ↑ "Scopus preview - Scopus - Author details (Persaud, Shanta Jean)". https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7005195615. 
  6. ↑ Faria, Alyssa; Persaud, Shanta J (2017-04-01). "Cardiac oxidative stress in diabetes: Mechanisms and therapeutic potential". Pharmacology & Therapeutics 172: 50–62. doi:10.1016/j.pharmthera.2016.11.013. ISSN 0163-7258. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pharmthera.2016.11.013. 
  7. ↑ Atanes, Patricio; Ruz-Maldonado, Inmaculada; Olaniru, Oladapo E.; Persaud, Shanta J. (2020), "Assessing Mouse Islet Function", Methods in Molecular Biology (New York, NY: Springer US): pp. 241–268, ISBN 978-1-0716-0384-0, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0385-7_17, retrieved 2020-07-11 
  8. ↑ Al‐Romaiyan, Altaf; Liu, Bo; Persaud, Shanta; Jones, Peter (2020). "A novel Gymnema sylvestre extract protects pancreatic beta-cells from cytokine-induced apoptosis" (in en). Phytotherapy Research 34 (1): 161–172. doi:10.1002/ptr.6512. ISSN 1099-1573. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ptr.6512. 




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