(05/2025) Nature Communications: Control of spatiotemporal activation of organ-specific vagal fibers by interferential stimulation
Assistant Investigator
Ibrahim is a physician-scientist with research interests in neuroimmunology and neuroimmune modulation.
Elmezzi Scholar
The Anh is an anesthesiologist with a research interest in neuroimmune mechanisms of inflammation and pain.
During her time as undergraduate and medical student, Anna participated in several translational neuromodulation projects.
Currently resident in plastic surgery at NY Presbyterian Hospital.
MD/PhD student at Zucker School of Medicine. While at the lab working on his PhD thesis, Michael studied how vagal activation impacts adaptive immunity at the spleen.
Currently medical student at Zucker School of Medicine.
Stefanos Zafeiropoulos, MD PhD
Formerly Elmezzi scholar at TNP lab. While at the lab working on his PhD thesis, Stefanos worked on focused ultrasound of the spleen as a new treatment for experimental pulmonary hypertension.
Currently cardiology fellow and research team leader at University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
Umair Ahmed, MD
Formerly post-doctoral fellow at TNP lab. While at the lab, Umair worked on developing methods and animal models for vagus nerve stimulation and focused ultrasound neuromodulation.
Currently neurology resident at Northwell Health.
Yao-Chuan Chang, PhD
Formerly post-doctoral fellow at TNP lab. While at the lab, Yao-Chuan worked on methodologies for selective vagus nerve stimulation.
Currently senior neural engineer at Synchron.
Jacquelyn Nicole-Tomaio
Formerly research associate at TNP lab.
Currently PhD student at City University of New York.
Adam Abbas, BSc
Formerly post-bac visiting scholar at TNP lab.
Currently medical student at University of Buffalo.
Moon Rob, MPH
Formerly post-bac visiting scholar at TNP lab.
Currently medical student at NYIT.
Collaborating groups at the Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine:
Theo Zanos (neural and data science lab)
Timir Data (bioelectronics lab)
Yousef Al-Abed (molecular targets lab)
Lance Becker (resuscitation science lab)
Kevin Tracey, Sangeeta Chavan, Valentin Pavlov, Eric Chang (biomedical science lab)
Betty Diamond (autoimmune and musculoskeletal diseases lab)
Clinical research collaborators at Northwell/Hostra Medical School:
Larry Miller (neurogastroenterology)
Stavros Mountantonakis (cardiac EP)
Raman Mitra (cardiac EP)
Netaniel Ben-Shalom (neurosurgery )
Bruce Volpe (neuroanatomy, neurorehabilitation)
John Pelleritto (therapeutic ultrasound)
Christine Sethna (pediatric nephrology)
External collaborators:
Mary Barbe, Temple U (neuroanatomy, neuroimaging)
George Giannakoulas, Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki (cardiology)
Chris Puleo, GE Research (biomedical engineering)
Mark Nicolls, Stanford U. (vascular biology and immunology)
John Martin, CUNY (spinal neuromodulation)
Eberhard Fetz and Steve Perlmutter, U. of Washington (motor neurophysiology)
Stanisa Raspopovic, ETH Zurich (neural engineering and modeling)
Corey Smith, Case Western (autonomic physiology)
Robert Froemke, NYU (cortical neuromodulation and neuroplasticity)
Cristin Welle, U. of Colorado (neural interfaces)
Guillaume Lajoie, U. of Montreal (neural computation)
Raimund Herzog, Yale School of Medicine (metabolism, diabetes)