Stein Innovation Award for Research to Prevent Blindness goes to the Giger lab! (Please see more below)
New manuscript by the Giger Lab in BioRxiv: “Diverse and Location-Specific Roles of PlexinA2, PlexinA4, and NCAM in Developing Hippocampal Mossy Fibers”
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.15.628586v1
The Giger Lab welcomes new postdoctoral fellow, Jose (Pepe) Avila Mendoza. who is joining the ARPA-H funded optic nerve regeneration team!
The Giger Lab is contributing to a groundbreaking project aimed at restoring vision through whole eye transplants. By promoting optic nerve regeneration, their research offers hope for overcoming key challenges in eye transplantation, collaborating with experts on the $56M VISION project supported by the Advanced Research Project Agency for Health (ARPA-H).
Congratulations to lab member Matthew Finneran for his informative talk at the UM Kellogg Vision Research Retreat!
Congratulations to lab member Hannah Hafner for her excellent talk at the CSHL “Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Connectivity” meeting!
Congratulations to lab member Matt Finneran for his F31 fellowship from the National Eye Institute!
Congratulations to lab member Ryan Passino for his paper in Cell Reports showing how different myeloid cell types impact optic nerve regeneration!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38492223/