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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...

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...

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...