Congratulations to Farah Haleem for being awarded two prestigious UCSD scientific scholarships which will help fund her during the academic year.
She is the recipient of McNair scholarship and the TRELS spring scholarship 2023
Farah will use the funding to help design and test CRISPR-based gene editing with the aim of treating inherited retinal disease.
Congratulations! To 6 members of the Borooah lab group for their presentations accepted at Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) to be held in New Orleans in April this year.
Special mention to Juan Arias for his poster ‘Association and prevalence of pentosan polysulfate sodium use with drug-related maculopathy’ which was selected to receive a prestigious National Eye Institute Travel Grant 2023.
Juan has also been invited to present his work as part of the Members in Training Outstanding Poster Competition.
Congratulations to Dr Shyamanga Borooah who was awarded a Brightfocus Travel award to present at the retinal degeneration meeting 2020 being held in Nashville Tennessee.
Congratulations to Sabrina Tuano who was awarded a TRELLS undergraduate research scholarship
Congratulations to Dr. Shyamanga Borooah, for his Knights Templar award for his project entitled ‘Defining the role of LAMP2 in retinopathy associated with Danon disease’. Danon disease is life and sight-threatening systemic disease results from mutations in the gene LAMP2. This study will use a stem cell model of Danon disease to identify where LAMP2 is expressed in the eye. Then Dr. Borooah will use gene therapy to test a translational treatment approach to treat vision problems found in Danon disease. The work is in close collaboration with Dr. Eric Adler, Professor of Cardiology, who has spent most of his career working with patients with Danon disease.
Congratulations to Dr Asha Kumari, Post-doctoral scholar in the lab gained a prestigious ARVO travel prize at her first attempt for her presentation entitled ‘Single cell RNA sequencing of retinal immune cells identifies an activation of resident retinal microglia associated with sub-retinal pseudodrusen-like deposits.’