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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...

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

MS – Aging and Neuroscience (University of South Florida) BS – Biochemistry (University of Louisiana Monroe) Current PhD student in Medical Sciences at USF Katherine is a PhD student in Medical Sciences with a concentration in Neuroscience at the University of South Florida. She holds a Bachelor 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...

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...