Meet the team behind the research.

Amina Qutub, PhD

Assistant Director of Strategic Alliances
MATRIX AI Consortium

Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering, UTSA

Research Areas:

AIxBio, Systems Biology, Modeling & Visualization, Cell Engineering, Hypoxic Response, Neurovascular Regeneration

Academic Profile:

https://klesse.utsa.edu/faculty/profiles/qutub-amina.html

Industry Profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aminaqutub/

Publications:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Tqx8w_gAAAAJ

Research Group:

https://www.qutublab.org/

Recent Honors and Awards

• U.S. National Academies Frontiers of Engineering Symposia Chair, Invited Speaker & Participant (2014–2019)
• Inaugural Bioinformatics Peer Prize Award, 2017
• Hamill Innovation Award, Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Rice, 2015, 2011
• The Academy of Medicine, Engineering & Science of Texas Conference Protégé Invitee, 2014

Mark P. Goldberg, MD

LeWinn Endowed Professor
Department of Neurology

Associate Vice President for Strategic Research Initiatives, UT Health San Antonio

Research Areas:

Vascular Neurology, Stroke Recovery, Neural Plasticity After Injury, Whole-Brain Microscopy & Connectomics, Brain Diagnostics & Therapeutics, AI for Neurologic Disease, Long COVID

Academic Profile:

https://directory.uthscsa.edu/academics/profile/goldbergm

Industry Profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/markpgoldberg/

Publications:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=o_EATSoAAAAJ

Recent Honors and Awards:

• Chair-Elect, Stroke Rehabilitation, Prevention and Recovery Committee, American Heart Association (2025-2027)
• Edward B. LeWinn MD Memorial Endowed Chair (2021-Present)
• Co-founder (2013-Present); Executive Committee Chair (2022-Present), Lone Star Stroke Consortium
• Multiple-Principal Investigator, NIH South Texas RECOVER (Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery) (2021-Present)
• Chair, Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, UT Southwestern Medical Center (2010-2018)
• Director, Haggerty Center for Research on Brain Injury and Repair after Stroke, UT Southwestern Medical Center (2010-2019)