Susana B. Zanello, Ph.D.
Scientist
susana.b.zanello@nasa.gov

Dr. Zanello obtained both her BS (1989) and PhD (1994) degrees in Biology from the National University of the South in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Her postdoctoral work at Boston University School of Medicine focused in various aspects of the vitamin D endocrine system and circadian biology in skin. Later, she developed her expertise in ophthalmology, studying early molecular mechanisms of diabetic retinopathy at the Schepens Eye Institute in Boston. From 2004 until 2007, at the Department of Ophthalmology of the University of Arizona, Tucson, she studied the role of cell-cell adhesion proteins and their influence in the paracellular flow of aqueous humor in glaucoma. Currently, she is a member of the Disease Modelling and Tissue Analogues Laboratory led by Dr. Thomas Goodwin at Johnson Space Center, where she investigates the effect of space flight simulated conditions on three-dimensional tissue models.