Student Spotlight

Each month we highlight one of our MSTP students. This month's highlight is: 

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Maximos McCune

Area of Study: Neuroscience Graduate Program
Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio

Academics

Research interests

• Neurodevelopment
• Vascular biomechanics
• Fluid-structure interaction modeling
• Regenerative medicine

Awards, honors, publications:

• Katzan I, Li Y, McCune MP, Lapin B. Relationship between Objective Performance and PROMIS Physical Function in Patients with Stroke. Journal of the American Heart Association 2025. PMID: 40371583
• Ahn HM, Li Y, Lapin B, McCune MP, Katzan I. Comparative Analysis of Patient Reported Outcomes in Cerebral Venous Thrombosis and Ischemic Stroke. Journal of the American Heart Association 2025. PMID: 40371583
• Davison MA, McCune MP, Thiyagarajah N, Kashkoush A, Achey R, Shost M, Toth G, Bain MD, Moore NZ. The Incidence of Infratentorial Arterial Venous Malformation-Associated Aneurysms: An Institutional Case Series and Systematic Literature Review. Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery 2024. PMID: 38937081
• Certified forklift operator pursuant to OSHA regulation 1910.178

Long term goals/ aspirations

• Run a laboratory as a surgeon-scientist
• Complete an ultra marathon
• V10 rock climber

Post MSTP Training dream job

• Work as a surgeon in a large, academic hospital

Fun Facts

What you enjoy outside of school

• Playing guitar
• 6:18 marathon runner
• Rock climbing
• Weight lifting

A talent you have always wanted

Parallel park with perfect accuracy, 100% of the time, in any scenario (perfect pitch would be cool too).

Favorite book

Homer’s The Iliad

Favorite quote

“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible… The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part.” - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

Can’t live without

Caffeine

If you weren’t in MSTP, what would you be doing now?

Going to school for music