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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...

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. 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...

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...

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...

I am a research scientist under the tutelage of Dr. Song and I conduct translational research within the field of cardiology. I developed a research background in cancer immunology during my undergraduate career, which has lent itself well to understanding the signaling mechanisms for...