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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So Goto, MD, PhD University of California Berkeley School of Optometry So Goto, MD, PhD, has been selected as the 2022 Loris and David Rich Postdoctoral Scholar for his project, Role of retinal pigment epithelium in choroidal thickness modulation and myopia maculopathy. After receiving a Bachelor of Medicine (MD) from Kanazawa University School of Medicine […]
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Peter M.J. Quinn, PhD Columbia University New York, New York After receiving his BSc at The University of Manchester and MSc at Brunel University, Dr. Quinn joined the lab of Dr. Jan Wijnholds at Leiden University, where he completed his PhD. Subsequently, Dr. Quinn joined Columbia University in New York as a postdoctoral research fellow, […]
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PROJECT TITLE: Electro-neural interface with single-cell resolution for the restoration of sight in Age Related Macular Degeneration Dr. Bhuckory received his BSc with honors in Applied Biomedical Sciences from the Scottish University of Abertay Dundee, UK, after moving from Mauritius. He completed his PhD graduae work in Northern Ireland at Queen’s University, Belfast, UK, where […]
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Tia J. Kowal, PhD Stanford University Palo Alto, California Project Title: The Role of Primary Cilia for Retinal Ganglion Cells Palo Alto, California After graduating from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania with a PhD in cell and molecular biology, Dr. Kowal began her postdoctoral career at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Her research interests are […]
Project Title: Retinal Imaging with Optical Coherence Tomography in Neonatal Brain Injury to Evaluate and Improve Visual and Neurologic Outcomes. Sally Ong, MD, the 2017 Loris and David Rich Postdoctoral Scholar, was born and raised in Batu Pahat, a small town in Malaysia, and attended Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, on a full scholarship […]
CIB2 in the retina: cell types, function and molecular mechanism Saumil S. Sethna, PhD University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland Dr. Sethna joined the lab of Zubair M. Ahmed, PhD, in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery at the University of Maryland in March 2015, working as a research fellow. […]