Joel Jovanovic, PhD Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Nashville, Tennessee Project Title: The role of microglia-mediated inflammation on the cell fate of proliferating Müller glia following p27Kip1 inactivation and outer retina degeneration in aged mice Joel Jovanovic, PhD has been selected as the 2023 Loris and David Rich Postdoctoral Scholar […]
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Marco Bassetto, PhD University of California Irvine, USA PROJECT TITLE: Pharmacological treatment for maculopathies based on oral administration of new visual cycle modulator Dr. Bassetto developed his PhD in the field of ocular drug delivery. His early research aimed at establishing methods to enhance permeation of therapeutics within the eye after non-invasive, topical application. Most […]
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Zhiquan Liu, PhD Stanford University, USA PROJECT TITLE: Gene therapy for PDE6A deficient retinitis pigmentosa via CRISPR base editing Dr. Liu earned his undergraduate and graduate training in biology at Jilin University in China, was in the top 1% of students and published many high impact papers. He went on to earn his PhD degree […]
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