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Dr. Nguyen is a molecular biologist whose research lies at the intersection of cardiac and skeletal muscle regeneration, cancer resistance in striated muscle, and translational therapeutic development. She joined the University of South Florida in 2025 as an Assistant Professor following over a...

Emma Abell-Selby is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. Her research interests focus broadly on the nexus of policy, power, and academic practices within higher education. Emma’s dissertation research explores the teaching practices of...

Chrystal A. S. Smith, Ph.D., is an external affiliate of the AQUASS Research Lab. She is an anthropologist with an M.P.H. in epidemiology. Her research interests include chronic disease and behavioral health management. Dr. Smith has extensive experience developing and writing grant proposals for...

Dr. Enola Okonkwo is a Faculty Affiliate of the AQUASS Research Lab, an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Morsani College of Medicine, and the Associate Program Director for the USF Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She also serves as an Emergency Medicine Physician at Tampa...

I have been the lab manager since 2021. I earned my master’s degree in Law from Shanghai University in China. I have over 15 years of experience in customer service and education. My primary focus is laboratory management and logistics. Additionally, I culture and differentiate human iPSCs and...

Dr. Vicky Sanchez is a clinician-scientist in the Department of Otolaryngology. She provides clinical services and leads research studies in the Auditory Rehabilitation & Clinical Trials Laboratory (ARCT Lab). The ARCT Lab is both federally and industry funded, and is a collaborative multi...

Graduated as PhD from Fudan University and during the time focused on novel protein discovery and function study in cardiovasular diseases regulation for translational medicine, and from 2023 to 2025 received postdoctoral training in Albert Einstein College of Medicine and University of Chicago on...