Markus H. Kuehn, Ph.D., FARVO

Dr. Kuehn is the principal investigator of the Glaucoma Cell Biology Laboratory. He is a Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, a member of the University of Iowa Institute for Vision Research, and a faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Genetics Progam.
Dr. Kuehn is also the Associate Director of the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Visual Loss.

Dr. Cheng is a graduate of the Central South University in Changsha. She continued her education as a research fellow at the Harvard Medical School and at Sun Yat-sen University. She is an expert for induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) and works mainly on trabecular meshwork regeneration and the generation of retinal organoids.

Mr. Wadkins received a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa. He is the lab's histochemistry expert and also manages all pre-clinical animal models.

Mr. Chen is a graduate of the University of Iowa. He joined the Kuehn lab in 2020 and contributes to projects related to retinal neuroprotection.

Dr. Zeng is a visiting research scholar from Changsha, China. She joined the lab in January 2021 and investigates the contribution of neuroinflammation to glaucoma pathology.

Cheyanne Godwin

Ms. Godwin was working in the lab between 2016 and 2019. She became an expert in establishing and maintaining ocular perfusion cultures and developed extraordinary skills in measurements of aqueous humor outflow facility. She is now a Medical Student at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.

Dr. Gramlich was a Research Scientist in the Kuehn lab from 2014 to 2019. His projects included investigations of the influence of autoimmune processes in glaucoma pathophysiology. He is an investigator at the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Visual Loss. He joined the faculty of the University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences in 2019 and started his own laboratory. His current research is focused on the ocular symptoms of multiple sclerosis and the development of treatment approaches.

Mr. Loyo joined the lab as part of the Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) between 2018 and 2019. His projects included the generation and characterization of brain organoids, and the development of new mouse strains for our research. He is now a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin/Madison.

Mr. Gonsalves was a graduate student in the University of Iowa Interdisciplinary Genetics Program. He joined the lab in the summer of 2017 and was investigating microRNAs in ocular tissues and their roles in health and disease.

Mr. Brown is a Biomedical Engineer who worked in the lab in 2017 and 2018. In our lab he was a specialist for in vivo imaging techniques and electrophysiological tests. He is now pursuing graduate studies at the University of Colorado.

Ms. Miller was a student worker in the lab for many years before joining the lab full time in 2017. She carried out molecular and immunohistochemical analyses before heading off to medical school in 2018.

Dr. Zhu was a post-doc in the Kuehn lab between 2013 and 2016. During this time she demonstrated the ability of stem cells to regenerate the trabecular meshwork and restore aqueous humor outflow dynamics. She then joined the faculty of the Department of Pharmacology at Qingdao Universiy as an Assistant Professor and started her own laboratory.

Dr. Ahram was a graduate student in the University of Iowa Interdisciplinary Genetics Program. She was a member of the laboratory from 2010 until her graduation in 2014 and carried out studies on the genetics of angle closure glaucoma. She is currently a Clinical Molecular Genetics Fellow at Columbia University.

Dr. Manea was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab in 2011 and 2012. She went on to complete a pediatrics residency at the University of Kansas Medical Center and is currently affiliated with the Oregon Health & Science Hospital in Portland.

Dr. Fernandez de Castro was a research fellow in the lab between 2009 and 2010. He then completed a residency in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Louisville. He is now an ophthalmic surgeon in private practice in Florida.

Dr. Dumitrescu was a research fellow in the Kuehn lab between 2007 and 2009. She moved on to complete her residency training in Ophthalmology at the University of Kansas Medical Center and is now a member of the faculty of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Iowa.

Dr. Jiang was a research fellow in the laboratory in 2006 and 2007. She has resumed her position as a Professor of Ophthalmology at the 2^nd Xiangya Hospital of the Central South University in Changsha, China.

Dr. Kim was a research fellow in the Kuehn lab between 2004 and 2006. He is now a Professor of Ophthalmology at Yonsei University in Seoul.