Lab Overview

Research Interest

Research Areas

  • Unfolded Protein Response
  • Protein Translation
  • Inherited Retinal Degeneration
  • Diabetic Retinopathy

In-Vivo Imaging and Electrophysiology in our Lab

  • Ocular Coherence Tomography
  • Micron 4 imaging
  • Electroretinogram

Animal models

  • Oxygen induced retinopathy (OIR) mouse model
  • Knockout and transgenic mouse models (rd16, rd10, TRIB3 KO, T17M RHO, P23H RHO, Nnat KO)
  • Streptozotocin-induced diabetic mouse and tree shrew models

Publications: Dr. Gorbatyuk

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Gorbatyuk M

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