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Dr. Nesar Akanda received his M.D. and Ph.D. in neuroscience. After completing his Ph.D. at Karolinska and Linkoping University, Sweden, he joined the University of Central Florida (UCF), where he was an associate professor (research track). One of his research projects at UCF focused on the…
Dr. Ivan Navarro received his master’s degree from Moscow State University ‘M.V. Lomonosov’; later he received his Ph.D. in biomedical science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico ‘UNAM,’ where he developed non-viral vectors for targeted gene delivery to substantia nigra’s dopamine…
Dr. Robert Elliott holds an M.Sc. in radiation biology from the University of London and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Cornell (now Weill) Graduate School of Medical Sciences in New York City. He trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Irvine, and the University of…
Dr. Shuli Xia received her Ph.D. in biology from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. She completed her postdoctoral training at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Yale University School of Medicine. At the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Dr. Xia began her…
Dr. Stephen Gallo received his Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Buffalo, exploring novel methods of transdermal drug delivery using rheological, histological, and imaging techniques. He then trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), examining the membrane…