Meet the Team

Principal Investigator

Loren Wold, PhD, FAHA, FAPS

Dr. Loren E. Wold, PhD, FAHA, FAPS is the Senior Associate Vice president for Research in the Office of Enterprise, Research, Innovation, and Knowledge and is a professor in the Department of Surgery (Division of Cardiac Surgery) at The Ohio State University. He is also currently the Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal and FASEB BioAdvances.

Post Doctoral Scholar, DDS


Mariana Gallego-Perez

Neill Schwieterman

Lab Director


Post Doctoral Scholar-NRSA


Brandon Gibson

Drew Miller

Director of Animal Exposures


Harrison Hookfin

Research Associate

Sierra Saldaña

Research Associate

Student Assistant

Colin Doss

Esha Ghadi

Student Assistant


Eleanor Mohler

Student Assistant


Student Assistant

Noah Citek

Student Assistant

Ayra Abid