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Johnathen Worth

Person: Johnathen Worth, Clinical Research Associate

Johnathen joined the Healthy Minds Lab in 2025 as a Clinical Research Associate. As a Veteran and a proud Citizen of the Muscogee Nation in Oklahoma, he brings a unique and deeply rooted perspective to his work, guided by a lifelong commitment to addressing health disparities and advancing public...

March 2025-Dr. Ava Nasrollahi published a new article on laminins and the blood-brain barrier

News: March 01, 2025

Dr. Ava Nasrollahi published a new article entitled "laminins and the blood-brain barrier" in Matrix Biology.

February 2025-Drs. Kang and Nasrollahi published their Research on Identifying Pericytes populations

News: February 03, 2025

Min, who recently graduated from her PhD together with Ava have identified novel markers for brain pericytes, specialized cells crucial for brain health and function. By generating a unique mouse model and employing advanced RNA sequencing, the team distinguished pericytes from similar vascular...

2025 European Journal of Heart Failure - ARTICLE: Short Report

News: May 22, 2025

Renal Denervation Improves Cardiac Function and Exercise Duration in a Miniswine Model of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction Aims - Overactivity of the sympathetic nervous system is a common underlying mechanism in development and progression of several heart failure with preserved...

2025 JACC: Basic to Translational Science - ARTICLE

News: August 11, 2025

Hydrogen Sulfide Deficiency and Therapeutic Targeting in Cardiometabolic HFpEF Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) presents significant treatment challenges. We assessed hydrogen sulfide (H 2S) bioavailability in HFpEF patients and 2 animal models: the "2-hit" L-NAME + high-fat...

Screening and Identification of Brain Pericyte-Selective Markers

Publication: Journal Article

Kang, Minkyung, Ava Nasrollahi, Feng Cheng, and Yao Yao. 2025. “Screening and Identification of Brain Pericyte-Selective Markers”. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics 2025 Feb;31(2):e70247. doi: 10.1111/cns.70247. (2).

Immune cells in intracerebral hemorrhage

Publication: Journal Article

Taskin, Irem Culha, and Yao Yao. 2025. “Immune Cells in Intracerebral Hemorrhage”. Brain Hemorrhages 6: 86-94.

New Publication in The Ocular Surface!

News: May 01, 2025

This brand-new publication from the Swamynathan laboratory, spearheaded by Mehak Vohra and Simran Kumar, was supported by the rest of the team. In this paper, they used a novel mouse model and a variety of different assays to elucidate that the apicobasal polarity determinant Pard3 promotes corneal...

Truman Roland

Person: PhD Student

I am a graduate student pursuing a PhD in medical sciences at the Morsani College of Medicine (MCOM)). I earned my B.S. in biomedical engineering from USF in 2023 where I specialized in tissue engineering and wound healing. Now, I apply these tissue engineering techniques to the regeneration of the...

Yael Bensoussan, MD, MSc, FRCSC

Person: Co-Founder and Director, Institute for Voice and Hearing Innovation, Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Chief of Laryngology

Dr. Yael Bensoussan is an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and a fellowship-trained laryngologist with advanced expertise in voice, swallowing and upper airway evaluation and treatment. She is also an avid proponent of multidisciplinary care and has...