Yun Le, PhD
- Position: Diabetes Research Member
Biography
My research interests include mechanisms and therapeutic strategies for diabetic retinopathy (DR), age-related macular degeneration, and retinal neuroprotection, as well as alteration of visual signaling in DR and hypoxic retinal disorders.
Additional Websites
Health Education
- Graduate School
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Molecular & Cellular Biology & Genetic Engineering
NIH/NIDDK
Bethesda, MD -
Genome Biology
Dalhousie Univeristy
Halifax, NS -
PhD, Microbiology/Biology
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS
- Undergraduate School
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BS, Biochemistry
Fudan University
Shanghai,
Research Interests:
- Blood-retina barrier biology and diseases
- Neuroprotection
- Retinal neurobiology
- Pathobiology of Müller glia
- Mechanism and treatment of blood-retina barrier breakdown in diabetic retinopathy
- Mechanism and treatment of retinal degeneration in diabetic retinopathy and hypoxic retinal disorders
- VEGF as a direct functional regulator of photoreceptors and its implication to the regulation of visual function in diabetic retinopathy and hypoxic retinal disorders
- Technologies in gene-modified animal models