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.

Email

Yun-Le@ouhsc.edu

Additional Websites

Health Education
  • Graduate School
  • Molecular & Cellular Biology & Genetic Engineering NIH/NIDDK
    Bethesda, MD
  • Genome Biology Dalhousie Univeristy
    Halifax, NS
  • PhD, Microbiology/Biology Dalhousie University
    Halifax, NS
  • Undergraduate School
  • 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