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Study Sections
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Dr. Aiwu Cheng received her medical degree in China and earned her Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, where her dissertation research focused on abnormal brain development in Down syndrome. She subsequently joined the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Laboratory of…
Dr. Amber Collins received her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University’s Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering. From there, she began her postdoctoral training in mechanical engineering at the University of…