Dr. Baojin Ding received his bachelor’s degree in medicine (MD equivalent) and master’s degree at the Clinical Laboratory in China. After he received a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge, he undertook postdoctoral training in neuroscience at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Ding has worked for two years in the UT Southwestern Medical Center as a research faculty before he built his independent laboratory in the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In early 2022, Dr. Ding’s lab relocated to the department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSU Health Shreveport. The research efforts in Dr. Ding's laboratory focus on molecular and cellular neuroscience and related neurological diseases. Currently, Dr. Ding's laboratory is funded by NIH and DoD.