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Apte Lab

Rajendra Apte, MD, PhD, Paul A. Cibis Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Innate immunity and immune effector mechanisms in the retina; oxidative stress and cell death; models of developmental angiogenesis and neovascularization; inflammation and photoreceptor survival; macular degeneration

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Chen Lab

Shiming Chen, PhD, Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Professor, Developmental Biology

The major goal of our laboratory research is to identify the molecular mechanism(s) regulating photoreceptor gene expression in the mammalian retina and the implications of these mechanisms for understanding photoreceptor degenerative diseases and developing therapeutic treatments for these diseases.

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Clark Lab

Brian Clark, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Analysis of the temporally regulated program of retinal cell type specification.

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Corbo Lab

Joseph Corbo, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Pathology & Immunology

We are interested in the transcriptional regulatory networks that underlie the development, evolution, and diseases of photoreceptors in the retina. We are taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the problem of how a network of transcription factors orchestrates the expression of distinct cohorts of downstream genes to build this complex micromachine, the photoreceptor cell.

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Ferguson Lab

Thomas Ferguson, PhD, Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

The laboratory studies the 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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Kerschensteiner Lab

Daniel Kerschensteiner, MD, Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Professor, Neuroscience; Professor, Biomedical Engineering

We would like to understand the principles that guide the assembly of neural circuits and to decipher the way they process information. Our efforts concentrate on the mammalian retina.

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Morgan Lab

Josh Morgan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

The goal of our lab is to identify the structural and developmental principles that turn agglomerations of cells into image processing circuitry.

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Rajagopal Lab

Rithwick Rajagopal, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

  • Pathogenic mechanisms in diabetic retinopathy
  • neuronal damage in diabetes mellitus
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Soto Lab

Florentina Soto, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Studies in my laboratory aim to determine the role of ATP-mediated (purinergic) neurotransmission in the mammalian retina. 

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Walsh Lab

James T. Walsh, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

The Walsh lab studies the local communication between the eye and the adaptive immune system, and how this local immunity can be utilized to improve diagnosis and treatment of ocular autoimmunity.

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Williams Lab

Philip Williams, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences