Center for Biomedical Science and Policy

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Abu Bakkar Siddique, Assistant Professor, School of Public Administration, Florida Atlantic University

Abu Bakkar Siddique is an Assistant Professor of Public Finance in the School of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from George Mason University. Before joining FAU, Abu Bakkar was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Indiana University Bloomington. 

Linda Sue Berg, Researcher, College of Science (COS)

Linda Sue Berg is a researcher in the College of Science. Her background is physics and mathematics. She has a PhD in Solid State Physics. Her research interests focus on molecular and cellular neuroscience, and biopsychology.

Mehdi Nayebpour, Managing Director at Virginia Bioanalytics LLC

Mehdi Nayebpour received his PhD in Public Policy from Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University in 2022. His research focuses on personalized medicine, particularly in the field of kidney transplantation. His efforts aim to expand and advocate the practice of personalized medicine for the betterment of minorities who are in need of kidney transplant.

Rajendra Kulkarni, Researcher, Schar School of Policy and Government (Schar)
Researcher in the Schar School of Policy Government. He works in interdisciplinary and teamed research with focus on quantitative, visual and network analytics and modeling. Currently he is working on blockchain models of regions, deep neural nets for region identification and big data network analytics to model spatio-temporal sensing of activity patterns.

Alexandru Graur, Ph.D Student in Bioscience, COS

Projects: Acetylcholinesterase signaling in Alzheimer’s disease. Amyloid peptide interactions with cholinergic receptors.

Kylie Cunningham, Master Student in Social Work, CHHS

Loveline Chizobam Phillips, Ph.D student in Public Policy, Schar School of Policy and Government

Nadege Lebert, MS in Biology, COS

Projects: Mitochondrial lipid signaling in neurons.

Neelam Shukla, Ph.D student in Public Policy, Schar School of Policy and Government

Olzhas Zhorayev, Ph.D student in Public Policy, Schar School of Policy and Government

Patricia Sinclair, Ph.D in Neuroscience, COS

Projects: Estrogen regulation of mitochondrial function. Neonictinoid toxicity in dopaminergic cells.

Patrick Baxter, Ph.D in Public Policy, Schar School of Policy and Government.

Rosy James, Master Student in Bioengineering, CEC

Yang Yu, Ph.D student in Public Policy, Schar School of Policy and Government

Zifu Wang, Ph.D candidate in Geography and Geoinformation Science, College of Science

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