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Pathways to Excellence Seminars - 2025

Pathways to Excellence Seminar Presentations

For information about this seminar series, please contact Dr. Feng Tao (ftao81@tamu.edu).

Schedules and speakers for the 2025 presentations will be posted on this page as the information becomes available.

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January 22, 2025
Jian Kong, MBBS, MS, MPH
Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Mass General Research Institute
Harvard Medical School
The Brain Mechanism Underlying Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation

February 12, 2025
Qing Lin, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (ACCM)
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 
Unraveling the Immunoregulatory Mechanisms of Wound Healing

February 26, 2025
Jay McLaughlin, PhD
Professor 
Department of Pharmacodynamics     
College of Pharmacy 
University of Florida 
 Structure-Based Design of Bitopic Opioid Agonist Analgesics Targeting Sodium Site Signaling by Mu and Delta Opioid Receptors

 March 26, 2025
Alejandro Almarza, PhD
Professor
Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences and Bioengineering
Center for Craniofacial Regeneration
McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine 
University of Pittsburgh 

CRISPR and Imaging Technologies for the TMJ

April 9, 2025
Kimberly Gomez, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics 
College of Medicine
The University of Florida

Indirect Voltage-Gated Ion Channel Modulation as a Gateway to Pain Relief