Research of Gu’s lab interests in aging and neurodegenerative diseases including traumatic brain injury (TBI) on redox and proteolytic signal transduction. Dr. Gu serves as the site PI for the interagency resource multi-institutional consortium — PRECISE-TBI (PREClinical Interagency reSearch re-sourcE-TBI) for elevating rigor, reproducibility, transparency, and translation in preclinical TBI studies. Dr. Gu’s research has been funding by NIH, DOD/CDMRP programs, and VA and has been produced 80+ peer-reviewed scientific articles and trained total over 40 people worldwide. Currently, Dr. Gu serves voluntarily as President (2021-2023) of the Chinese Neurotrauma Scholar Association (CNSA) and in the Board of Directors of the Chinese American Society for Mass Spectrometry (CASMS).

Dr. Firas H. Kobaissy received a Ph.D. in molecular Neuroscience from the University of Florida (Gainesville) under the direction of Dr. Kevin K. Wang and Dr. Mark S. Gold. Most of his research focused on brain injury due to mechanical insult or due to drug abuse neurotoxicity using rat model. Dr. Kobaissy utilizes the state of the art proteomics tools to investigate cell death mechanisms involved in different brain insults. In his Ph.D., Dr. Kobaissy utilized the controlled cortical impact (CCI) rat model to evaluate protein dynamics after acute brain injury. In his Post- doctoral training, he translated his work to study the proteomics changes involved in drug abuse particularly in methamphetamine and MDMA. Dr. Kobeissy is the author of more than 150 articles, reviews, and book chapters along with three international patents. He is a tenured professor and associate director for the Center for Neurotrauma, Multiomics & Biomarkers (CNMB) of Department of Neurobiology & Neuroscience institute, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), Atlanta, Georgia USA.

Dr. Jiepei Zhu is an assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and the Department of Anatomy & Cell biology, College of Medicine, University of Florida. Dr. Zhu received his PhD in the department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Dr. Zhu’s research is focusing on the various animal models of traumatic brain injury (TBI), which include fluid percussion injury (FPI), controlled cortical impact (CCI) as well as Closed head injury and blast injury models. Dr. Zhu is familiar with the anatomic structures of the central nervous system in rodent and the rodent neuro-behavioral assessment to test neuro-motor function and cognitive function after TBI with therapeutic intervention. Dr. Zhu also has expertise in immunohistochemistry biomarkers staining and analysis. Currently, as a co-investigator, Dr. Zhu has participated the research projects funded by NIH, department of veteran’s affairs (VA) and DoD (Department of Defense).

Dr. Wu received a medical degree from the Beijing Medical University (Peking University Health Science Center) in 1984, and Ph.D. at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston in 1991. She is currently a Full Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Neurobiology. Dr. Wu is also an Investigator in the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, the Moody Center for Traumatic Brain & Spinal Cord Injury Research, and the TIRR Mission Connect. She serves as Associated Editor, Section Editor and Editorial board member on several scientific journals. She was a previous President and currently a Councilor in the Chinese Neurotrauma Scholar Association. Dr. Wu’s current study focuses on exploring the biology and therapeutic potentials of human and rodent neural stem cells. Her translational research interests include neurotrauma, addiction and neural infection.

Prof. Baiyun Liu, Chief Physician, Doctoral supervisor, specializing in: Neurotrauma, Spinal cord injury, Brain tumor and other Neurological diseases. Now he is the Director of the Neurotrauma Ward, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, the Leader of the TBI Research Group, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, the Chairman of the Neurotrauma Training Committee of Chinese Medical Doctor Association, the Vice President of Chinese Neurotrauma Scholar Association (CNSA) and the Vice Director of the Beijing Key Laboratory of Central Nervous System Injury, as well as the Vice Chairman, Member, Editorial board member of more than 20 Academic Groups.

Prof. Zongduo Guo obtained his Ph.D. degree of Neurosurgery from Chongqing Medical University in 2009. He is a visiting Scholar in Neuroscience at Loma Linda University Medical Center in 2014. Since 2009, he got 3 grants support from NSFC, was awarded “Chongqing’s senior doctor” and was fellow of Chinese neurosurgical association. He has co-authored 59 peer-reviewed publications related to cerebrovascular diseases and traumatic brain injury. Prof. Guo also serves as Editorial Board Member of Neural Regeneration Research.

Research interest: Microsurgery and endovascular treatment of cerebrovascular diseases.

Dr. Zhengrun Gao obtained her Ph.D. degree of Neurobiology in 2019, at Institute of Neuroscience & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2019 to 2022, she studies as postdoctoral fellow at Huashan Hospital & Fudan University. She joined The National Clinical Research Center for Aging and Medicine (Huashan) in September 2022 as Young Investigator and Academic secretary.

Research interest: Functional reconstruction mechanisms and neuromodulation strategies after central nervous system (CNS) injuries. The aim of Dr. Gao’s study is to use various research methods of neurobiology to solve problems faced in clinical treatment.