Select projects with collaborators inside and outside the School of Medicine

  • With Dr. Zack at the Wilmer Eye Institute and Dr. Welsbie at UCSD:
    DLK-JNK and SARM1 signaling in traumatic/diffuse axonal injury: mechanisms and therapeutics
  • With Drs. Thomas Johnson at Wilmer Eye, Golberg at Stanford and Baranov at Harvard:
    Cellular therapies for traumatic degenerations of the visual system
  • With Rr. Venkatesan and colleagues at the Department of Neurology:
    In vitro traumatic and toxic axonopathy models using HESC-derived human neurons with cholinergic and other neurotransmitter phenotypes
  • With Dr. Lauer at the Department of Otolaryngology-HNS:
    The role of Wallerian degeneration and SARM1 in acoustic injuries
  • With Drs. Pearse and Kokkinou:
    Metabolomic signatures of Wallerian degeneration and treatments with NAMPT and MAPK inhibitors and NaR
  • With Drs. Brock and Rivlin at the Applied Physics Laboratory and Dr. Pang at Yale: High-resolution imaging of injured CNS axons with FIB-SEM
  • With Drs. Qian and Lyu at Wilmer Eye Institute:
    Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics of the injured visual system
  • With Drs. Juan Troncoso and Meaghan Morris in the Division of Neuropathology:
    White matter changes in human neurodegenerative diseases