Graduate Faculty Mentors

Mustafa M Ahmed

Mustafa M Ahmed MD

Professor of Medicine
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Jonathan Bird

Jonathan Bird Ph.D.

Associate Professor
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Research Interests:
  • Gene therapy
  • Hearing Loss
  • High-content Screening and Drug Discovery
  • Molecular Motors and Cytoskeletal Disease
Prodip K Bose

Prodip K Bose MD, PhD

Associate Professor Of Anesthesiology & Neurology; Interim Director, Brain Rehabilitation Research Center; Director, MRI/PET & Translational Neurotrauma Rehabilitation Lab
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  • Advanced MRI and stroke
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Stroke
  • Traumatic spinal cord injury
  • traumatic brain injury
Katelyn A Bruno

Katelyn A Bruno PhD, FHFSA, FACC

Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
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  • Age Differences
  • Cardio-Oncology
  • Dilated Cardiomyopathy
  • Heart Failure
  • Myocarditis
  • Sex Differences
  • hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS)
Gemma Casadesus

Gemma Casadesus Ph.D.

Professor
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  • Aging
  • Integrative neuroscience
  • Menopause
  • Metabolic syndrome
  • Neurodegenerative diseases
  • Neuromodulation
  • Neuropathology of Neurodegenerative diseases
  • Neuroplasticity
  • Sex Differences
  • neuroendocrinology
  • neurometabolism
Eli Chapman

Eli Chapman PhD

Professor
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  • Cellular quality control
  • Chaperones
  • Chemical biology
  • Drug discovery
Olga Guryanova

Olga Guryanova MD, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
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  • Cancer
  • Drug discovery
  • Epigenetics
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Jeffrey K Harrison

Jeffrey K Harrison Ph.D.

Professor & Vice Chair of Education
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  • Cancer
  • Chemokines
  • Receptors
Rajesh Khanna

Rajesh Khanna Ph.D.

Richard And Thelma O.C. Barney Term Professor & Director, Center for Advanced Pain Therapeutics and Research (CAPToR)
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May Khanna

May Khanna Ph.D.

Associate Professor & Assistant Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Daniel Kopinke

Daniel Kopinke Ph.D.

Associate Professor
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  • Drug discovery
  • Primary Cilia and Cilopathies
  • Regenerative and Precision Therapeutics
  • Stem Cell biology
  • Tissue engineering related to wound healing
Brian K Law

Brian K Law Ph.D.

Associate Professor & Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs
Email: bklaw@ufl.edu
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  • Cancer
  • Cell Cycle Regulation
  • Drug discovery
Duane A Mitchell

Duane A Mitchell M.D., Ph.D.

Director – UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute; Assistant Vice President for Research – University of Florida; Associate Dean – UF College of Medicine
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Mark S Moehle

Mark S Moehle Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
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  • Dystonia
  • Lewy Body Dementia
  • Movement Disorders
  • Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors
  • Parkinson’s disease
Helen Moore

Helen Moore PhD

Associate Professor
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  • Mechanism-based mathematical modeling
Emily K Moser

Emily K Moser

Assistant Professor
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Jennifer K Mulligan

Jennifer K Mulligan PhD

Vice Chair For Research; Co-Director, UF Health Smell Disorders Program; Director Of Resident Research Education; Associate Professor, Division of Rhinology & Skull Base Surgery & Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
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Aline C Oliveira

Aline C Oliveira Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
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Dietmar W Siemann

Dietmar W Siemann

Professor; Associate Director for Education and Training, UFHCI
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Lee Sweeney

Lee Sweeney Ph.D.

Eminent Scholar Professor & Myology Institute Director
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  • AAV vectors
  • Dystrophin
  • Force generation
  • Gene therapy
  • MR imaging
  • Molecular motors
  • Muscle
  • Muscular dystrophy
  • Myosin
  • Sarcopenia
  • Small molecule therapy
Brittany Taylor

Brittany Taylor PhD

Assistant Professor
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  • Biomimetic matrices, tunable multifactorial delivery systems, and modified subcellular components to overcome deficiencies and complement the healing response
  • Identifying the biological and structural mechanisms that contribute to tendon’s limited healing capacity
  • Regenerative and reparative processes of musculoskeletal tissues
Gilbert R Upchurch, Jr

Gilbert R Upchurch, Jr MD, DHA

Edward M. Copeland III and Ann & Ira Horowitz Chair, Professor of Vascular Surgery
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Nikhil Urs

Nikhil Urs Ph.D.

Associate Professor
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  • Dopamine circuit mapping
  • Dopamine neurotransmission
  • Neuropharmacology
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Schizophrenia
Adrienn G Varga

Adrienn G Varga

Assistant Professor
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Dan Wesson

Dan Wesson Ph.D.

Professor & Chair
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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Drug addiction
  • Neural circuits
  • Neurophysiology
  • Nicotine Addiction
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Sensory neuroscience
  • neuroscience
  • olfaction
  • smell
  • synucleinopathy
Rui Xiao

Rui Xiao PhD

Associate Professor
Email: rxiao@ufl.edu
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  • Aging
  • C. elegans
  • Molecular genetics
  • Sensory biology
Fan Zhang

Fan Zhang Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
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  • CNS Cancer
  • Cell and Gene Therapy
  • Drug delivery
  • Immuno-Oncology
  • Immunotherapy
  • Nanomedicine
  • Neuroinflammation
Ronald Davis

Ronald Davis Ph.D.

Professor, Neuroscience
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Mei He

Mei He Ph.D.

Associate Professor
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  • 3D Printing and Biomaterials
  • Cancer Immunotherapy
  • Extracellular Vesicles and Exosomes for Biological Programming and Nanodelivery
  • Microfluidic organ on chip
  • Regenerative and Precision Therapeutics
Paramita Chakrabarty

Paramita Chakrabarty PhD

Associate Professor
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  • Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
  • Brain imaging
  • Disease Modeling
  • Gene therapy
  • Inflammation
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Prion

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