CollinsEzeukaMD

Summary

• Collins Ezeuka, M.D.-- is an American physician-scientist. He was born in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Ezeuka completed his undergraduate studies, at the University of California, Berkeley-- where he studied Neurobiology. Following the completion of his undergraduate studies, Dr. Ezeuka conducted cancer research, at UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center-- under the guidance of Dr. Dennis J. Slamon, M.D., Ph.D.
  
  Thereafter, Dr. Ezeuka continued with his cancer research-- as a pre-doctoral fellow, at City of Hope's Beckman Research Institute/California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech)-- in the Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics & Tumor Immunology, where he worked under the guidance of Dr. Andrew Raubitschek, M.D. Dr. Ezeuka, also completed training at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory-- wherein he studied cellular protein expression.
  
  Upon completion of his cancer research fellowship positions, Dr. Ezeuka went on to medial school, at Meharry Medical College. Following completion of medical school, Dr. Ezeuka completed his surgical internship at Grady Memorial Hospital. Subsequently, Dr. Ezeuka advanced in surgical and medical training at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
  
  Dr. Ezeuka also obtained an NIH post-doctoral fellowship-- where he focused on the role of microRNAs on endothelial inflammation, myocardiocyte development, pluripotent stem cells, and biomedical forces-- namely, shear stress associated with blood flow, on endothelial biology, vascular inflammation, atherosclerosis, and blood cancers.
  
  Subsequently, Dr. Ezeuka completed a fellowship in Cardiovascular Biology-- at Emory University. Simultaneously, during his fellowship in Cardiovascular Biology at Emory University, Dr. Ezeuka completed concomitant research at Georgia Institute of Technology-- in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, under Hanjoong Jo, Ph.D