Glaucoma Cell Biology Laboratory
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

 

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Dr. Markus Kuehn
Markus H. Kuehn, Ph.D.

Dr. Kuehn is the principal investigator of the Glaucoma Cell Biology Laboratory. He is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, a member of the Carver Family Center for Macular Degeneration, and a faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Genetics Program. Click here for a C.V.


Amy Cook
Amy Cook

Ms. Cook joined our lab as a Research Assistant in the spring of 2009. She is a graduate of Loras College in Dubuque, IA, provides a steady knowledge base for all things lab-related, and generally keeps things running.


Dr. Qiong Ding
Qiong Ding, Ph.D.

Dr. Ding recently joined the laboratory. She graduated from Wuhan University and will be the driving force behind the neuroinflammation project.


Dr. Juan Fernadez de Castro
Juan Fernandez de Castro, M.D.

Dr. Fernandez de Castro is a research fellow who joined the lab in the summer of 2009. In collaboration with Dr. Ed Stone and the Molecular Ophthalmology Laboratory he is conducting studies designed to test the feasibility of using induced pluripotent stem cells to restore vision.

Mr. Alexander Pfleging
Alexander Pfleging

Alex is an undergraduate research assistant in the laboratory. He joined the lab in the summer of 2009.


Former Lab Members

Dr. Alina Dumitrescu
Alina V. Dumitrescu, M.D.

Dr. Dumitrescu was a research fellow in the laboratory between 2007 and 2009. She is currently completing a pediatric ophthalmology fellowship at the University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.


Dr. Chan Yun Kim
Chan Yun Kim, M.D., Ph.D.

Chan was a research fellow in the Kuehn lab between 2004 and 2006. He is currently an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Yonsei University and remains a close collaborator.


Dr. Bing Jiang
Bing Jiang, M.D.

Bing was a member of our laboratory in 2006 and 2007. She has since resumed her position as a Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the 2nd Xiangya Hospital of the Central South University in Changsha, China.


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