Prof. Firas H Kobeissy
Morehouse School of Medicine, USA
Email: firasko@gmail.com, firasko@ufl.edu
Qualifications
2007 Assistant Professor, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Florida, USA
2007 Postdoctoral Associate, Dept of psychiatry, University of Florida, USA
2006 Ph.D., University of Florida, USA
Publications (selected)
1. Radabaugh, Hannah & Harris, Neil &
Wanner, Ina & Burns, Mark & Mccabe, Joseph & Korotcov, Alexandru
& Dardzinski, Bernard & Zhou, Jinyuan & Koehler, Raymond & Wan,
Jieru & Labastida, Javier & Moghadas, Babak & Bibic, Adnan &
Febo, Marcelo & Kobeissy, Firas & Zhu, Jiepei & Rubenstein, Richard
& Hou, Jiamei & Bose, Prodip & Wang, Kevin. (2025). Translational
Outcomes Project in Neurotrauma (TOP-NT) Pre-Clinical Consortium Study: A
Synopsis. Journal of neurotrauma. 10.1089/neu.2023.0654.
2. Wanner, Ina & Mccabe, Joseph & Huie, J. Russell &
Harris, Neil & Paydar, Afshin & McMann-Chapman, Chloe & Tobar,
Anthony & Korotcov, Alexandru & Burns, Mark & Koehler, Raymond
& Wan, Jieru & Labastida, Javier & Tong, Jonathan & Zhou,
Jinyuan & Davis, Lex & Radabaugh, Hannah & Ferguson, Adam &
Meter, Timothy & Febo, Marcelo & Awwad, Hibah. (2025). Prospective
Harmonization, Common Data Elements, and Sharing Strategies for Multicenter
Pre-Clinical Traumatic Brain Injury Research in the Translational Outcomes
Project in Neurotrauma Consortium. Journal of neurotrauma.
10.1089/neu.2023.0653.
3. Zohdy, Youssef & Garzon, Tomas & Grossberg, Jonathan
& Barrow, Daniel & Howard, Brian & Pradilla, Gustavo &
Kobeissy, Firas & Tomlinson, Stephen & Alawieh, Ali. (2025). Complement
inhibition targets a rich-club within the neuroinflammatory network after
stroke to improve radiographic and functional outcomes. Journal of
Neuroinflammation. 22. 10.1186/s12974-024-03316-z.
4. Mohamed, Wael & Kobeissy, Firas. (2024). Probing
Traumatic Brain Injury Pathophysiology: Lessons from the Zebrafish Model.
10.1007/978-981-97-6341-2_2.
5. Chaouche, Lydia & Raffo, Antonella &
Hajjaji, Nawale & Kobeissy, Firas & Pinheiro, Donna & Soulaimane,
Aboulouard & Cozzani, Adeline & Mitra, Suman & Fournier, Isabelle
& Cizkova, Dasa & Salzet, Michel & Marie, Duhamel. (2024).
Inhibition of furin in CAR macrophages directs them toward a proinflammatory
phenotype and enhances their antitumor activities. Cell Death & Disease.
15. 10.1038/s41419-024-07267-4.
6. Murphy, Travis & Cueto, Robert & Zhu,
Jiepei & Milling, Jacob & Sauter, Justin & Oli, Muna & Griffin,
Ian & Midathala, Gagan & Tyndall, J & Spiess, Bruce & Wang,
Kevin & Kobeissy, Firas & Becker, Torben. (2024). Dodecafluoropentane
improves neuro-behavioral outcomes and return of spontaneous circulation rate
in a swine model of cardiac arrest. Brain injury. 39. 1-9.
10.1080/02699052.2024.2427803.
7. Lisi, Ilaria & Moro, Federico & Mazzone, Edoardo
& Marklund, Niklas & Pischiutta, Francesca & Kobeissy, Firas &
Mao, Xiang & Corrigan, Frances & Helmy, Adel & Nasrallah, Fatima
& Di Pietro, Valentina & Ngwenya, Laura & Portela, Luis &
Semple, Bridgette & Schneider, Andrea & Diaz-Arrastia, Ramon &
Menon, David & Smith, Douglas & Wellington, Cheryl & Winston,
Brent. (2024). Exploiting blood-based biomarkers to align preclinical models
with human traumatic brain injury. Brain. 10.1093/brain/awae350.
8. El Hayek, Samer & Eid, Mario & Cherro,
Michele & Gold, Mark & Bizri, Maya & Kobeissy, Firas. (2024).
Epigenetics of Addiction and Eating Disorders. 10.1093/oso/9780190671051.003.0021.
9. Sheikh, Walaa & Abou-Abbass, Hussein &
Bizri, Maya & Tamim, Hani & Karout, Lina & Allouch, Farah &
Chehade, Rawan & Ghannam, Mayssa & Fares, Youssef & Nasser, Zeina
& Al-Hajj, Samar & Harati, Hayat & Kobeissy, Firas. (2024). The
Impact of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Head Injury on Reactive and
Appetitive Aggression in Adult Syrian Refugees in Lebanon. Psychological
Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. 17. 67-76. 10.1037/tra0001796.
10. Omais, Saad & Zibara, Kazem & Kobeissy,
Firas & Shaito, Abdullah. (2024). Editorial: Revisiting Mouse Models of
Traumatic Brain Injuries: A Focus on Intracellular Mechanisms. Frontiers in
Cellular Neuroscience. 18. 10.3389/fncel.2024.1505348.
11. Wehbe, Zena & Wehbe, Maya & Khatib, Ali &
Dakroub, Ali & Pintus, Gianfranco & Kobeissy, Firas & Eid, Ali.
(2024). Emerging understandings of the role of exosomes in atherosclerosis.
Journal of Cellular Physiology. 240. 10.1002/jcp.31454.
12. Heikal, Mariam & Saad, Halim & Ghanimé,
Pia Maria & Bou Dargham, Tarek & Bizri, Maya & Kobeissy, Firas
& Hajj, Wassim & Talih, Farid. (2024). Using Machine Learning and
Electronic Health Records to Identify Neuropsychiatric Risk Scores for Delirium
in ICU and General Hospital Settings. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment.
20. 1861-1876. 10.2147/NDT.S479756.
13. Zhao, Min & Silvestre, Dario & Hu,
Ruifeng & Hachem, Sana & Yehya, Amani & El Masri, Jad &
Mavingire, Nicole & Johnson, Jabril & Dwead, Abdulrahman & Kattour,
Naim & Bouchi, Yazan & Kobeissy, Firas & Rais-Bahrami, Soroush
& Mechref, Yehia & Abou-Kheir, Wassim & Woods-Burnham, Leanne.
(2024). Contemporary Update on Clinical and Experimental Prostate Cancer
Biomarkers: A Multi-Omics-Focused Approach to Detection and Risk
Stratification. Biology. 13. 10.3390/biology13100762.
14. Mavingire, Nicole & Moore, Janelle &
Johnson, Jabril & Dwead, Abdulrahman & Cropp, Cheryl & Mechref,
Yehia & Kobeissy, Firas & Rais-Bahrami, Soroush & Woods-Burnham,
Leanne. (2024). Revisiting HER2 in Prostate Cancer from an Inclusive
Perspective: From Biomarkers to Omics. Cancers. 16. 3262.
10.3390/cancers16193262.
15. Samanta, Romit & Chiollaz, Anne-Cécile
& Needham, Edward & Yue, John & Helmy, Adel & Zanier, Elisa
& Wang, Kevin & Kobeissy, Firas & Posti, Jussi & Summers,
Charlotte & Manley, Geoffrey & Maas, Andrew & Tenovuo, Olli &
Sanchez, Jean-Charles & Menon, David & Phillip, Victor. (2024). Parsimonious
immune-response endotypes and global outcome in patients with traumatic brain
injury on behalf of the TRACK-TBI investigators and participants CENTER-TBI
investigators and participants. EBioMedicine. 108. 10.1016/j.ebiom.2024.105310.
16. Doumit, Mark & Mallah, Carla &
El-Makkawi, Alaa & Obeid, Omar & Kobeissy, Firas & Darwish, Hala
& Abou-Kheir, Wassim. (2024). Vitamin D Deficiency Does Not Affect
Cognition and Neurogenesis in Adult C57Bl/6 Mice. Nutrients. 16. 2938.
10.3390/nu16172938.
17. Mechref, Yehia & Peng, Wenjing &
Gutierrez, Cristian & Bennett, Andrew & Kobeissy, Firas & Mondello,
Stefania. (2024). Basics of MS-Based Glycomic and Glycoproteomic Analysis of
Glycoproteins. 10.1142/9789811283376_0007.
18. Ibeh, Stanley & Babale, Ismail & Morah,
Arthur & Khachab, Maha & Eid, Ali & Kobeissy, Firas. (2024).
Traumatic-Brain Injury and Cardiovascular Diseases: Oxidative Stress at the
Crossroad Linking TBI-Induced Autonomic Dysfunction to Cardiovascular
Impairment. 10.1007/978-3-031-62131-4_7.
19. Eid, Ali & Yazby, ahmed & Kobeissy,
Firas. (2024). Oxidative Stress in Cardiovascular-Metabolic Diseases.
20. Nwaiwu, Judith & Ibeh, Stanley &
Reslan, Mohammad Amine & Bakkar, Nour & Mekhjian, Sarin & Sanni,
Akeem & Eid, Ali & Haidar, Muhammad Ali & Goli, Mona & Obeid,
Omar & El Khoury, Riyad & Mechref, Yehia & Elyazbi, Ahmed &
Kobeissy, Firas. (2024). Western Diet Induces Mild Metabolic Impairment and
Aggravates Neuropathology in an Experimental Mouse Model of Traumatic Brain
Injury. Journal of Neurorestoratology. 12. 10.1016/j.jnrt.2024.100140.
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