Paula Boeira

Academic profile

Dr Paula Boeira

Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Peninsula Medical School (Faculty of Health)

About Paula

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Centre for Environmental Hepatology 

My primary research focus is on understanding how environmental toxins—particularly microplastics and nanoplastics—contribute to liver injury, inflammation, and fibrosis. To investigate these questions, I have developed the precision-cut liver slice technology at the University of Plymouth. This advanced ex vivo model preserves the liver’s complex architecture, immunocompetency, and multicellular interactions, providing a powerful tool for studying liver pathophysiology in a controlled environment.

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