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Ali is a third-year medical student with a deep passion for the brain's complexity. This interest led to involvement in cognitive science and neurology research as an undergraduate, further fueling the desire to specialize in neurology. Outside medicine, Ali enjoys audiobooks on history, economics...

Dr. Tian Li, M.D., Ph.D., is currently Assistant Professor as a member of the USF Health Center for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) and Heart Institute. Dr. Lin is an experienced researcher and recently relocated to Tampa after working for 11 years as an Instructor at Massachusetts General Hospital in...

I was born and raised in the Orlando area. I pursued a degree in psychology while on the premed track at the University of Florida. During my time there I worked in a research lab that studied the adverse effects of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, specifically the increased prevalence of calcium...

I was born in Rochester, New York and I lived there with my parents and my 3 sisters until my Dad got a job in Miami, Florida in 1979. I went to FSU for 1 year of college and then I transferred to The University of Florida in 1985 to study Architecture, graduating in 1989 with a Bachelor of Design...

My name is Xueling Ma. I got my MD degree in clinical medicine(2016), MS in Pediatrics(2019), PhD in Neonatology(2022) in Chongqing Medical University, China. During my Ph.D. study, I established an inflammation-induced premature brain injury model in rats and analyzed the connectivity between...

I received my B.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. For my postdoctoral training, I joined the laboratory of Dr. Mark Fishman at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC), in 1996. This group of scientists were the first to use zebrafish as an animal model...

Rico served as a lab manager and biological scientist at the Ho lab where he investigated iron regulatory and absorption mechanisms in-vitro using premature intestinal epithelial cells and an enteroid model derived from premature infant tissue. Rico is currently attending medical school at Boonshoft...

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