Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, professor and vice chair in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and professor of physiology at the 海角禁区, will receive the 2013 Mark Brothers Award from the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Dr. and Mrs. Guey C. Mark created the endowed Mark Brothers Lectureship to recognize nationally and internationally renowned medical scientists of Asian descent. The Mark Brothers Lectureship was established in 1997 in honor of Dr.
Bradley Gelfand, assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the 海角禁区, has been awarded a research grant from the American Heart Association to study atherosclerosis.
The grant will be used to determine whether the same novel findings previously discovered in human age-related macular degeneration also apply to human atherosclerosis. In particular, which levels and activity of the enzyme Dicer are altered in the vessel wall during atherosclerotic lesion formation.
