Joe Wider earned his PhD in Physiology from Wayne State University in March 2017. He received a bachelor of science in Physiology from Michigan State University in 2008. In 2021, Wider was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan Emergency Medicine Department and the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology. Dr. Wider’s research focuses on molecular and translational development of neuroprotective technology for treating acute neurological diseases, including cardiac arrest, neonatal hypoxic/ischemic encephalopathy, and traumatic brain injury (TBI).