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Claudio Punzo, PhD; Johanna Seddon, MD, ScM; and Shun-Yun Cheng, PhD’22, are receiving awards from the American Macular Degeneration Foundation.
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The next Neuroscience of Disease Forum will take place on Monday, Oct. 15, from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., in the Faculty Conference Room at UMass Medical School. It will feature talks by Shlomit Schaal, MD, PhD, and Claudio Punzo, PhD, on retinitis pigmentosa.
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UMass Chan experts: New gene therapy success holds promise for degenerative retinal diseases - UMass Medical School - Worcester
UMass Chan experts: New gene therapy success holds promise for degenerative retinal diseases
Khanna and Punzo weigh in on recent clinical trial results
Bryan Goodchild and Ellie Castano
UMass Medical School Communications
Gene therapy researchers at UMass Medical School focused on degenerative retinal diseases are calling a promising new study out of University of Oxford
Last modified: Feb 10, 2014
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retina in the lab of Claudio Punzo, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology and gene therapy. Through his work in the Punzo lab, Venkatesh discovered a way to make cone cells in the eye more efficient in absorbing nutrients, thereby extending the survival of these cells, and thus delaying the progression of blindness in animal models. His work led to two first-author publications in high-impact journals, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Cell Death and Disease. Dr. Punzo said that the study
Last modified: Jun 02, 2016
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Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
Front: Shlomit Schaal, MD, PhD; Misha Faustina, MD Back: Gabriel Luna, MD; Dan Yoon, MD; Haijiang Lin, MD, PhD; Hemant Khanna, PhD; Priya Janardhana, MD; Juan Ding, OD, PhD; Justine Grier, OD; Claudio Punzo, PhD The Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences at UMass Medical School has announced the launch of an ophthalmology residency program, recently approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). “We are committed
Last modified: May 08, 2019
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Conformation Capture Data and Their Application to Study Long-Range Gene Regulation Job Dekker, PhD, mentor Recognition of Class Speaker Aditya Venkatesh Activation of mTORC1 Improves Cone Cell Metabolism and Extends Vision in Retinitis Pigmentosa Mice Claudio Punzo, PhD, mentor Recognition of Travel Awards GSBS Student Travel Awards Navonil Banergee Michael Francis, PhD, mentor Natasha Qaisar Jennifer Wang, PhD, mentor Riccio GSBS Student Travel Awards Srinjoy Chakraborti Sanjay Ram, MD, mentor Yonca Karadeniz
Last modified: Jun 03, 2016
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from natural AAV2 capsids onto other capsid serotypes to boost transduction of adeno-associated virus vectors for gene therapy. Fiachra Humphries, PhD, assistant professor of medicine: Therapeutic targeting of a macrophage receptor in cancer. Claudio Punzo, PhD, associate professor of ophthalmology & visual sciences: Pre-investigative new drug studies for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration. Trudy Morrison, PhD, professor of microbiology & physiological systems: Efficacy of a novel
Last modified: Aug 17, 2023
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2016-17. Those students are: Kristin Abramo (Job Dekker Lab) Mennatallah Albarqi (Sean Ryder Lab) Elizabeth Allen (Eric Baehrecke Lab) Karen Ashe (Judith Ockene Lab) Anne Carlisle (Dohoon Kim Lab) Gaurav Chauhan (Elinor Karlsson Lab) Michelle Cheng (Claudio Punzo Lab) Yeonhee Cho (Gyongyi Szabo Lab) Ke Cong (Sharon Cantor Lab) Peren Coskun (Sean Ryder Lab) Siyuan Dai (Craig Mello Lab) Kyvan Dang (Junhao Mao Lab) Ameer Elaimy (Arthur Mercurio Lab) Jason Fan (Craig Peterson Lab) Philip Feinberg (Dorothy Schafer
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