Rate My Professor Audrey Lafrenaye

Lafrenaye's research addresses secondary injury cascades exacerbated by increased intracranial pressure and evaluates interventions including buprenorphine treatment and cathepsin B inhibition. She contributes to the multi-center Operation Brain Trauma Therapy consortium, focusing on therapies and biomarkers like circulating GFAP and Iba-1 levels associated with thalamic sequelae in pig models of mild TBI. Her scholarly impact is evidenced by over 1,000 citations, with prominent publications including 'Microglia processes associate with diffusely injured axons following mild traumatic brain injury in the micro pig' (Journal of Neuroinflammation, 2015), 'Bursting at the seams: molecular mechanisms mediating astrocyte swelling' (International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2019), 'Increased intracranial pressure after diffuse traumatic brain injury exacerbates neuronal somatic membrane poration but not axonal injury' (Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 2012), 'Focal adhesion kinase (FAK): A regulator of CNS myelination' (Journal of Neuroscience Research, 2009), and 'Operation brain trauma therapy: 2016 update' (Military Medicine, 2018). In 2023, she was named a Blick Scholar, honoring junior faculty advancing health sciences research. Lafrenaye chairs the Graduate Student Committee for the Women in Medicine and Science Program and advises Ph.D. candidates in neuroscience.