Biography:
Dr. Baojin Ding received his bachelor’s degree in Medicine (MD equivalent) and master’s degree in Clinical Laboratory in China. After he received PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Louisiana State University (LSU), he did postdoctoral training in Neuroscience at the UMass Medical School and worked as a research faculty in the UT Southwestern Medical Center. In 2018, Dr. Ding obtained an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the UL Lafayette and then relocated to LSU Health Shreveport. The research in Dr. Ding's laboratory is focusing on Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience and Neurological Diseases, and currently funded by NIH and DoD.
Title : Modeling Neurological Diseases Using Patient-derived Neurons