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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...

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...

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...

Dr. Mohd Rihan, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Ajit Magadum at the Center for Regenerative Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa. He earned his M.S. (Pharm) and Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the National Institute of...

Bachelor of Biomedicine and specialist in Clinical Analysis by University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, 2017. Master of Science in Morphofunctional Biology by the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, 2020. PhD student at Life Sistems Program of the Department of Anatomy of the Institute of Biomedical...

I am a developmental and molecular biologist with a longstanding interest in the molecular mechanisms that regulate mammalian development, cell fate determination, and human disease. In particular, my research group studies transcriptional regulation and miRNA-mediated post-transcriptional...

My name is Katia Andrade, and I am from Brazil. I am a post-doc in Dr. Zhigao Wang’s lab at the USF Heart institute (2023 - present). I have a Ph.D. in Systems Biology from the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at the University of São Paulo (ICB-USP, 2020 - Brazil), with a Sandwich Ph.D. at Harvard...