2016 Alston Callahan, MD Postdoctoral Scholar Recipient

Cholesterol Homeostasis in Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD). Norimitsu Ban, MD Washington University Department of Ophthalmology St. Louis, Missouri Dr. Ban received his M.D. degree from Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan in 2005.  He then joined the graduate program at the prestigious Keio University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, and completed his PhD in […]

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Eye site offers new insight on age-related macular degeneration

(Left) A comparison of optical coherence tomography (OCT) and histology on the same eye allows Project MACULA users to identify the cells on a microscope image (bottom) that are responsible for the hyper-reflective spots seen in the OCT (top, red, yellow), plus examine the contents of drusen, AMD’s specific lesion (teal). “From this kind of […]

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Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel Homoisoflavonoids for Retinal Neovascularization

Photo Above: The Corson Lab Group. Timothy Corson front right. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.  “Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel Homoisoflavonoids for Retinal Neovascularization,”  Helesha D. Basavarajappa, Bit Lee, Hyungjun Lee, Rania S. Sulaiman, Hongchan An, Carlos Magaña, Mehdi Shadmand, Alexandra Vayl, Gangaraju Rajashekhar, Eun-Yeong Kim, Young-Ger Suh, Kiho Lee, Seung-Yong Seo, and Timothy W. […]

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