Overview
| Upcoming Symposium |
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Join us November 11-12, 2005
at our NEW venue, the Kingsgate Marriott Conference Center, conveniently located on the campus of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. |
| Learn more about the conference. |
The Visual Systems Research Group at Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation is a collaborative effort between the Divisions of Developmental Biology and Pediatric Ophthalmology. The Visual Systems Research Group, led by Dr. Richard Lang, PhD is designed to bring basic research to Ophthalmology and to foster research efforts of the clinical faculty. The Visual Systems Research Group is comprised of four principal investigators:
| Meet the Principal Investigators |
| Richard Lang, PhD,has been a Professor at Cincinnati Children's Hospital since 2001, and he holds the endowed Emma and Irving Goldman Scholar Chair within Pediatric Ophthalmology. Dr. Lang's research explores fetal eye development and currently has projects addressing the genetic control of lens and blood vessel development in the mouse. His goals are to understand the development of the visual system and to be able to apply that knowledge in the clinical setting. |
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| Nadean Brown, PhD,is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Developmental Biology. Dr. Brown utilizes both Drosophila melanogaster and mouse models systems to study the development of retinal neurons, in particular, ganglion cells that are critical for the function of the optic nerve. These studies will provide insight into the underlying cause of visual system disease. |
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| Tiffany Cook, PhD,is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Developmental Biology and Pediatric Ophthalmology. Dr. Cook uses the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster model system to combine cellular, molecular, biochemical, and genetic approaches to dissect the events underlying the development of the retina and the genetic development of photoreceptors. |
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| Rashmi Hegde, PhD,is an Associate Professor in the Division of Developmental Biology. Dr. Hegde uses X-ray crystallography to study the biochemical mechanisms and structure-function relationships of molecules implicated in early eye, muscle and central nervous system development. |
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