Sabrina Nusraty is a Research Fellow at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). She graduated from the University of Maryland Honors College with a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in Government and Politics. At Maryland, she investigated whether a protein speculated to be involved in seizure development was associated with the mTOR neurodevelopmental pathway. Her current research explores the metabolic and inflammatory changes correlated with epilepsy and seeks to identify the signaling capabilities of cilia in the context of glioma tumorigenesis.

Ujwal Boddeti is a Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP) Fellow at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), who is also pursuing his MD from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He graduated from The George Washington University Columbian College of Arts & Sciences with a BS in Chemistry and minors in Biology and Public Health. He is interested in studying intracranial network changes and their role in epileptogenesis.

Prof. Dr. Kareem A. Zaghloul received his B.Sc. degree from MIT in 1995 and his M.D. degree and Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003. His graduate work focused on developing silicon models of visual processing in the mammalian retina with Dr. Kwabena Boahen. He completed a residency in Neurological Surgery in 2010 from the University of Pennsylvania. During this time, he completed postdoctoral research with Dr. Michael Kahana, investigating the neural correlates of human memory encoding, decision, and reward. He has completed clinical fellowships in Epilepsy Surgery and in DBS Surgery. He joined NINDS as a Staff Clinician in 2010 and as an Investigator in 2013. His laboratory is focused on investigating the neural mechanisms underlying human cognitive function.

Prof. Dr. Desmond A. Brown is an Assistant Clinical Investigator in the Surgical Neurology Branch at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, USA. He received a combined MD/PhD degree in 2014 from the Rutgers RWJ/Princeton University combined MD/PhD program. He then completed a residency in neurological surgery with a fellowship in neurosurgical oncology at the Mayo Clinic in 2021. Clinically, his interest is complex resection of intra-axial brain lesions relying on several surgical adjuncts (awake resections, intraoperative speech and motor mapping, 5-ALA fluorescence-guided resections).