Rex Walrond

I'm Rex Walrond (Theodore Rex Walrond), a neuroscience graduate of the University of Florida living in St. Petersburg, Florida. I earned a B.S. in Psychology with a concentration in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, cum laude, at UF, and later completed graduate coursework in finance at the University of Notre Dame. Today I'm building an early-stage venture in consumer health.

My research years were spent close to the brain. At UF's McKnight Brain Institute (2022–2023) I helped review more than 300 studies on how subarachnoid hemorrhage relates to Alzheimer's disease, and in the summer of 2021 I tracked COVID-19 drug candidates at Romark Laboratories in Tampa. I also volunteered as an Impact Partner with the American Parkinson Disease Association.

Away from work I dive and hike. I'm an SDI Divemaster and spent 2020–2023 assisting UF's Scientific Diving Program; my favorite dives are Paradise Springs in Florida and the kelp forests off Catalina Island. On land I've walked the John Muir Trail and the Teton Crest Trail and made a guided climb of Mount Rainier.

I write about research, diving and the trail at rexwalrond.com and theodorewalrond.com, and post longer reads on Issuu.