Patrice E Fort
Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan, USA
Biography
Patrice E Fort has earned his MS in Neurosciences and PhD in Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Biology from the University of Strasbourg, France before joining in 2005 the Penn State Retina Research Group to study the diabetes associated mechanisms that lead to vision loss. He has characterized the role and regulation of crystallin proteins in the retina during diabetes in 2008. He was then recruited in 2011 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology of the University of Michigan where he continues to study the regulation of intrinsic protective mechanisms in the retina under normal and pathological conditions
Abstract
Abstract : Role of crystallin proteins in retinal neuro degeneration and neuro inflammation