Evangelia (Litsa) Tsiani, PhD
Professor
Graduate Program Director (MSc & MA)
Department of Health Sciences
Brock University | Faculty of Applied Health Sciences

My research focus is understanding glucose homeostasis, the intracellular signaling pathways that are activated and control muscle glucose transport, metabolism and the defects contributing to insulin resistance/diabetes. An additional research focus is understanding cancer biology and the defects leading to enhanced cell proliferation. My goal/aim is to find plant derived chemicals, nutraceuticals, or functional foods that could modulate certain signaling pathways and be used against insulin resistance /diabetes and cancer