Welcome Yunshuo “Caroline” Tang, MD, PhD

We are pleased to welcome Yunshuo “Caroline” Tang, MD, PhD, to our team of Neuro-Ophthalmology Faculty.

Dr. Tang recently completed her neuro-ophthalmology fellowship with us, and we are excited to add her to our team of expert physicians.

Dr. Tang completed her MD and PhD degrees at the University of California, San Francisco, where she worked with Drs. Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, Michael Stryker, and John Rubinstein on the role of specific nerve cell populations in brain plasticity. She then joined Washington University as a resident in Adult Neurology. During her training, Dr. Tang was awarded a prestigious R25 grant from the National Institutes of Health, combining a research fellowship and a memory and aging clinical fellowship.

Dr. Tang’s research focuses on defining why retinal ganglion cells die in the setting of Nf1 optic glioma, leading to vision loss. She employs a variety of approaches, including single-cell RNA sequencing, to determine which RGC subtypes are most susceptible to optic glioma-induced death. Her goal is to leverage these findings to identify new treatments to reduce vision loss.

We are thrilled to have Dr. Tang join our team and look forward to her contributions to advancing our understanding and treatment of neuro-ophthalmologic conditions.

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