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Jingsong Ruan was hooded by Dr. Yao at the Summer 2025 Commencement Ceremony. Congratulations Dr, Ruan!

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) accounts for ∼50% of HF cases. The ZSF1-obese rat model recapitulates clinical features of HFpEF including hypertension, obesity, metabolic syndrome, exercise intolerance, and diastolic dysfunction. We utilized a systems-biology approach to...

Welcome our new lab member, Dr. Ching-Cheng Hsu, who received his Ph.D. from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, and joins the Nguyen Lab in Jun. He is interested in mammalian regenerative transcriptome and proteome.

Dr. Yao and colleagues published a new article entitled "The heart-brain crosstalk in age related cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disease" in Fluids and Barriers of the CNS.

NIH/NEI R01EY025643 has been renewed for 5 years since 2023. Title: Mechanisms of Trabecular Meshwork Regeneration by Stem Cells PI: Yiqin Du (USF)

Dr. Yiqin Du presented our innovation by Drs. Yiqin Du and Rohit Sharma at "Innovation Match: Build the Next Big Thing at USF" as one of the top 4 selected innovations at USF. We presented it to potential industrial partners and welcome partnerships and collaborations. The innovation is "A...

On March 3, 2024, the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame featured Dr. Shyam Mohapatra in its Innovator Spotlight series. The article traced his transition from early work in gene therapy to the frontier of nanotechnology. It highlighted his research across nanomaterials, nanomedicine and nanoelectronics...

On April 26, 2014, Dr. Shyam Mohapatra—Associate Dean at the University of South Florida and co‑founder of TransGenex Nanobiotech—was honored with the Global Corporate Award in Nanotechnology. The award was presented at the Global Corporate Awards ceremony, where Dr. Mohapatra was recognized as the...

Dr. Shyam Mohapatra founded and directs the VA Colorectal Cancer Cell-Genomics Consortium (VA4C), established in 2017. This national Veterans Affairs network applies precision medicine to colorectal cancer by integrating cell-genomics research, biomarker analysis and imaging to improve screening and...

In July 2014, Dr. Shyam Mohapatra was among the six inaugural inductees into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. He was recognized for pioneering nanotechnology-based diagnostics and treatments for diseases such as cancer, asthma, diabetes and viral infections. The honor highlighted his innovations...