Research Area: Biomedical Imaging & Application

Christina Boucher, Ph.D.

Dr. Boucher is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. She has over 85 publications in bioinformatics, with over two dozen of them in succinct data structures and/or alignment.… Read More

Stephanie Leon, Ph.D., DABR, DABSNM

Dr Leon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology in Gainesville and the Director of the Graduate Program. As part of the Diagnostic Medical Physics faculty, she serves as an instructor for three courses: GMS 6086, Research Methods… Read More

Marcelo Febo, Ph.D.

Current Research Our laboratory studies functional connectivity in rodent models of neurological and psychiatric brain disorders.  We utilize high field MRI to measure resting state and stimulus-evoked BOLD signal responses in rodent brains. We apply this approach to: (1) investigate… Read More

Fan Hong, Ph.D.

Fan is interested in developing biomolecular tools with nucleic acids to dive into the complexity of biology (decoding and regulating cellular functions on the molecular basis at tissue scale). Before joining the faculty at the University of Florida, Fan was a… Read More

Kuang Gong, Ph.D.

Research Summary: Dr. Gong’s research interests are centered around the convergence of deep learning, medical imaging, and data science to enhance the diagnosis and treatment monitoring of various diseases, particularly Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and cancer. His work involves developing novel… Read More

Abbas Babajani-Feremi, PhD

Dr. Abbas Babajani-Feremi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology, Division of Epilepsy at UF and the Director of the Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Laboratory. Abbas joined as a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Neurology at the Henry Ford… Read More

Stephen A. Coombes, Ph.D.

I co-founded the Laboratory for Rehabilitation Neuroscience at the University of Florida in 2011. My research focusses on brain structure and brain function in human models of neurodegeneration and other disorders that affect the sensorimotor system. My group has been… Read More

Shahab Vahdat, Ph.D.

Research Interests  Mechanisms of neuroplasticity in motor learning and stroke recovery Spinal cord and brain functional neuroimaging Optogenetic fMRI in rodents

David Clark, Sc.D.

Dr. Clark is the Associate Chief of Staff for Research Service (“Chief of Research”) for the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System, and Professor of Neurology at UF. Dr. Clark studies the neural control of walking in people with neurological… Read More