Claymore Gumbo

West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, PhD Student / Graduate Research Assistant, 08/23 - Present, 

• Expertise in neurocardiology, autonomic regulation, rodent TBI models, cardiovascular imaging, and quantitative analysis.
• Conduct research, collect and analyze data, and contribute to published works.
• Develop project methodology, prepare resources, and manage the project.
• Assist with grant writing, manuscript development, and prepare reports and presentations.
• Supervise undergraduate research assistants.
• Co-authored 2 peer-reviewed publications.
• Perform echocardiography, CBF imaging, and histological analyses in mouse models of TBI.
• Attend conferences to present research findings.

Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China, Research Assistant, 10/21 - 05/23, 

• Worked in Dr. Pan’s lab in the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Wenzhou Medical University in a project that aimed to find out the relationship between FGF21 and cardiovascular diseases.
• Searched for and reviewed relevant academic publications related to the research topic.
• Conducted experiments, administered surveys, conducted interviews, and collected observational data according to established protocols.
• Entered data into software, cleaned and organized data, and performed statistical analyses.
• Set up and maintained laboratory equipment, prepared samples, and followed experimental procedures.
• Drafted research reports, summarized findings, and created presentations to communicate results.

• Traumatic brain injury impairs cardiovascular function independent of preexisting cerebral hypoperfusion, Gumbo, C., Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2025
• Traumatic brain injury impairs cardiovascular function independent of preexisting cerebral hypoperfusion, Gumbo, C., Van Liere and WV IDeA Research Conference, Morgantown, WV, 2025

• Zhejiang Provincial Government Scholarship, China
• 2ND Price for a Poster Presentation during the 6th Annual Pharmacy Academic Forum, 2019

• Aerobic training improves exercise capacity after traumatic brain injury in female, but not male, mice, Karelina, K., Frontiers in Physiology, 16, 10/25, 1700462
• Traumatic brain injury persistently increases the incidence of both ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes: potential mechanisms, Barbour, M.A., Progress in Neurobiology, 248, 05/25, 102749