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Nour Shaheen earned his MD degree from the Alexandria Faculty of Medicine (2019–2024) and gained extensive research experience as a Research Assistant at the University of South Florida (2023–2024), where he focused on neurosurgery and brain repair. His prolific research portfolio includes...

Kiersten J. Gorse, B.S. Kiersten is an advanced research scientist in the Sharp laboratory at USF Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa, Florida, USA. Kiersten received her bachelor degree from Cornell University where she majored in animal sciences. She has more than a decade of biomedical research...

Education - M.Sc. Molecular Medicine Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan 2023 - M.Sc. Cell Biology and Genetics (Cell and Molecular Biology) University of Lagos, Yaba, Nigeria 2021 - B.Sc. Anatomy University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria 2018

Tom is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology at the USF Morsani College of Medicine and a faculty member of the USF Health Heart Institute in Tampa, Florida, USA. He earned his Ph.D. from Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine, where he was...

Dr. Ajit Magadum is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Regenerative Medicine within the Department of Internal Medicine at the USF Health Heart Institute. His research is dedicated to advancing mRNA-based therapeutics for cardiovascular disease (CVD), with a particular focus on cardiac repair...

Dr. Mohd Rihan, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Ajit Magadum at the Center for Regenerative Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa. He earned his M.S. (Pharm) and Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the National Institute of...

Education: MD and BA., Clinical Medicine, English, Shandong First Medical University PhD, Medical Sciences - Cardiovascular Biology, University of South Florida Bio: My current research endeavors focus on the function of the microcirculation and lymphatic vessels and determining the single cell...

Dr. Yao received his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology from Stony Brook University, NY in 2011, and completed his postdoc training at the Rockefeller University in 2015. Dr. Yao obtained a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota in 2015 and moved to the University of...

Pooja graduated with a Ph.D. from the Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India in 2024. Pooja is experienced in cell and molecular biology, with special emphasis in establishing primary cell cultures. Pooja joined our lab in April 2025. She focuses her effort on elucidating the role of PARD3 in...