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<\/a>Timothy is the Principal Investigator and Assistant Professor in the departments of Cell, Development and Regenerative Biology and Ophthalmology, member of the Black Family Stem Cell Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He was a Hong Leong visiting professor at the National University of Singapore from 2017 to 2019. He received his PhD from New York University Medical Center under the mentorship of Dr. Eric Lang, directed by Rodofo Llin\u00e0s. He then became a post-doctoral fellow at the Neural Stem Cell Institute under the leadership of Dr. Sally Temple. Dr. Blenkinsop leads a team focused on understanding the plasticity of the retina in the effort to develop therapies for retina based eye diseases. He is a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and International Society for Stem Cell Research. Dr. Blenkinsop has authored publications in journals including Cell Stem Cell, Journal of Neuroscience and Stem Cell Reports, which have been highlighted in Nature in Cell. He also consults with companies in the field of neural stem cells and retinal regeneration.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Rachael Warrington<\/p>\n
Post-doctoral Fellow<\/p>\n
Rachael is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the departments of Cell, Development and Regenerative Biology and Ophthalmology, and a member of the Black Family Stem Cell Institute at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Visual neuroscience research has been the focus of her work for over ten years. Rachael conducted her PhD in Neuroscience at The University of Western Australia, relating specializations in retinal structure and function to the ecological niches that lampreys inhabit. Her post-doctoral positions transitioned to biomedical research, specifically retinal disease\/degeneration. In her previous post-doctoral position in Professor Pete Coffey\u2019s lab at The University of Santa Barbara California she worked under the mentorship of Dr. Geoffrey Lewis on developing therapies for retinal detachment, utilising in vivo<\/em> models. Currently Rachael\u2019s research focuses on understanding proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) and epiretinal membrane formation, using in vitro<\/em> and in vivo<\/em> models of PVR, testing therapies that have previously been shown to inhibit and reverse membrane contraction.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Anne Zebitz-Eriksen<\/p>\n Post-doctoral Fellow<\/p>\n <\/p>\n News and views<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bar Nachmani<\/p>\n Graduate Student<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alumni<\/p>\n Marie Fernandes, PhD<\/p>\n Senior Research Associate<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nAnne is a Post-doctoral fellow in the departments of Cell, Development and Regenerative Biology and Ophthalmology, member of the Black Family Stem Cell Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She obtained her PhD at the Technical University in Denmark. Her scientific interests are regenerative medicine generally and the use of nanoscience and stem cell technologies to develop therapies for retinal degeneration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>Bar is a PhD student in the Biomedical Sciences department at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She works on human embryonic stem cell differentiation into the eye layers as a model for eye development and disease. Bar also works on generating a CRISPR knock-out cell line that would enable a better understanding of the role of FOXS1 during eye development. Bar grew up in Israel, and completed her high-school education in the UK. She received her Bachelor of Science from University of Toronto in Canada, were she was involved in generating mouse iPSC lines through a secondary reprogramming system in the lab of Dr. Andras Nagy. Outside of school, Bar enjoys yoga and exploring the vibrant New York food scene.<\/p>\n