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Rajendra Apte, MD, PhD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Innate immunity
  • Angiogenesis
  • Retinal degeneration
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Steven Bassnett, PhD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Understanding the cellular basis of transparency and accommodation
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Anjali Bhorade, MD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Glaucoma - adult, open angle
  • Neurological disorders of the eye
  • Neuropathy as it affects the visual system
  • Paralytic and restrictive ocular motility disorders
  • Blepharospasm
  • Adult strabismus
  • Ultrasonography
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Shiming Chen, PhD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Molecular mechanisms regulating photoreceptor gene expression in healthy and diseased retinas
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Brian Clark, PhD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Understand the transcriptional landscape to 1) select an individual progenitor cell to exit the cell cycle, and 2) differentiate as a specific retinal cell type at the appropriate developmental time
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Thomas Ferguson, PhD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Role of autophagy in the pathogenesis of eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and other retinal degenerative diseases
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Mae Gordon, PhD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Glaucoma and Ocular Hypertension (Biostatistics)
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Lynn Hassman, MD, PhD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Uveitis
  • Molecular signatures in uveitis
  • Bioinformatics
  • Therapeutic biomarkers
  • Precision medicine
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Andrew Huang, MD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Corneal epithelial wound healing
  • Corneal neovascularization
  • Corneal stromal dystrophies
  • Corneal Stem cells and Dry eye
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Daniel Kerschensteiner, MD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Neural circuit assembly and visual processing in the retina
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Peter Lukasiewicz, PhD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Neurotransmitter
  • Synapse
  • Glutamate transporter
  • GABA receptor
  • Retinal information processing
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Todd Margolis, MD, PhD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate the establishment and maintenance of latent neuronal infection with herpes simplex virus (HSV)
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Joshua Morgan, PhD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Use advanced cellular imaging techniques to investigate how neurons organize themselves into image processing circuits
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Rithwick Rajagopal, MD, PhD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Pathogenic mechanisms in diabetic retinopathy
  • Neuronal damage in diabetes mellitus
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Phil Ruzycki, PhD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Comprehensive analysis of genomic, proteomic, and transcriptomic datasets to understand visual system development and disease
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Alan Shiels, PhD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Lens & Cornea: Cataract, Presbyopia & Corneal Dystorphies (Molecular Biology/ Genetics)
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Carla Siegfried, MD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Glaucoma
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Florentina Soto, PhD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Role of ATP-mediated (purinergic) neurotransmission in the mammalian retina
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Lawrence Tychsen, MD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Neural mechanisms in strabismus
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Gregory Van Stavern, MD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Neuroimmunology
  • Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
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Philip Williams, PhD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Preserving and repairing the nervous system following trauma and disease
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Takeshi Yoshimatsu, PhD

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Research Topics

  • Molecular and cellular basis of the functional development and regeneration of the vertebrate visual system