Ding Lab
Principal Investigator
Baojin Ding, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
LSU Health Sciences Center at Shreveport
Dr. Baojin Ding received his Bachelor of medicine (MD equivalent) and MS in Clinical Laboratory in China, and obtained his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2010 from Louisiana State University. After his postdoctoral training in Neuroscience in the laboratories of Drs. Daniel Kilpatrick and Vivian Budnik at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Dr. Ding has worked as a research faculty in UT Southwestern Medical Center for 2 years, and as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for 3 years. In January 2022, Dr. Ding joined the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology in LSU Health Shreveport as an Assistant Professor (tenure track). The research of the Ding laboratory focuses on molecular and cellular neuroscience and related neurological diseases.
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Current Lab Members
Post Doctorates

Masood Sepehrimanesh
Ph.D., DVM,
Graduate Students

Masuma Akter M.S.
Doctoral Student
(Fall 2019)

Haochen Cui M.S.
Doctoral Student
(Spring 2020)

Md Abir Hosain
Doctoral Student
(Spring 2021)

Casey A. Coutee
Master of Science
(Fall 2020)
Undergraduate Students

Catherine Wertz
Scholarship Recipient
Past Members

Jacob Stagray
Graduate Student


Ameneh Zare M.D.
Research Assistant

Matthew Authement
Scholarship Recipient

Audrey Lumpkin B.S.
Undergraduate Researcher
Erin Miller
Undergraduate Researcher


Bennett Garbarino
Scholarship Recipient
Bao Doan
Undergraduate Researcher
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