Research Team
Dr. Iffland was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He received his BA in Zoology from Miami University and a MA in Biology from Kent State University. He completed his Ph.D in Molecular Biology in the Cleveland Clinic/Kent State Collaborative Doctoral Program with Damir Janigro, Ph.D. In 2015, he joined the lab of Peter B. Crino, MD, Ph.D for a postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular Neuroscience at the Shriners Hospitals Pediatric Research Center at Temple University School of Medicine. Dr. Iffland is an alumnus of the San Servolo Advanced Epilepsy Summer School and has been selected for both the Young Investigator and Junior Investigator Awards from the American Epilepsy Society.
Kelley is a graduate of the University of Maryland College Park with a BS in Community Health. She also earned a post-bacc certificate in Neuroscience from The University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the lab she spent over a decade as a registered medical assistant working in pain management, orthopedics, and rheumatology. In 2026 Kelley completed her MS in Cellular and Molecular Biomedical Science at UMB in the Iffland lab.
Starting in August 2026, Kelley will be starting her PhD.
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Lab Alumni
Sabrina Nusraty– Medical Student, University of Maryland SOM
Kaylin Baumiller– Undergraduate, U. Maryland College Park
David Kolb– Medical Student, University of Vermont
Jules Einhorn– Medical Student, University of Maryland SOM
John Page– Medical Student, Georgetown University
Adrian Auber– Ph.D student, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Sophie Bruckmeier, Ph.D– Assistant Professor, Univ. Nevada Las Vegas
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