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Joel Fundaun
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioJoel Fundaun is a clinician-scientist specializing in chronic pain following traumatic head and neck injuries. His research aims to identify the drivers of pain persistence and develop tools to better predict recovery after traumatic injuries. By integrating clinical phenotyping, neuroimaging, and molecular biomarkers, he investigates why some individuals develop chronic pain while others recover.
Joel earned his Doctor of Physical Therapy from Regis University and completed an Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Residency at Northwestern University–Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. He received his DPhil (PhD) in Clinical Neurosciences from the University of Oxford, where his doctoral research identified novel signs of nerve injury and neuropathic pain in whiplash-associated disorders.
Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University. He also continues to work clinically as a physical therapist at the Stanford Pain Management Center, where he treats patients with complex chronic pain conditions. -
Yiming Gan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioDr. Yiming Gan is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Neurology. He earned his B.S. degree in Modern Mechanics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2019 and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester in 2024, where his research focused on the experimental measurement and computational modeling of cerebrospinal fluid flow and the glymphatic system. After graduation, he joined Stanford University as a postdoctoral scholar in the Pediatric Neurostimulation Laboratory (Baumer Lab) and the Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute. His research interests span biomarkers for epilepsy (functional connectivity), cerebral drug delivery, and Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy.
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Christina Gangemi
Postdoctoral Scholar, Developmental Biology
BioDr Christina Gangemi received her undergraduate degree from Monash University (2016) specialising in molecular biology and biochemistry. She became an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Scholar (2016) and completed her Honours thesis (2017) at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI), Monash University. She later joined Professor Harald Janovjak’s group at ARMI (2018) as a research assistant before completing her doctorate degree (2019-2023) where she studied optical approaches to promote pancreatic beta cell regeneration. Key achievements from this work include establishing an automated image analysis approach to quantify islet proliferation assays, designing a modular light-emitting diode shelving system for ex vivo and in vitro illumination of primary islets, generating a new assay to test cyclin-dependent kinase 6 (CDK6) function (a known beta cell proliferation driver), and exploring the effects of photoswitchable pdDronpa domains when engineered into CDK6. During her candidature, she was awarded a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Australia PhD Top-Up Scholarship. In 2023 she undertook a Postdoctoral Research Associate role in the Janovjak group at Flinders University and has recently joined Professor Seung Kim's group at Stanford University.
