Sentences with phrase «of neuroprotective therapies»
Despite the urgent need, almost all clinical trials of neuroprotective therapies to date have failed to translate from the laboratory to the clinic, according to the RBC research team.
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Dr. Rex was awarded the 2012 Shaffer Prize for Innovative Glaucoma Research for her research investigating the effectiveness of a neuroprotective therapy in a model of inherited glaucoma.
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In fact, so much of the progress that we're making in laboratories, including mine, is on developing neuroprotective therapies that can protect the retina from degeneration, regenerate optic nerve fibers all the way back to their targets in the brain, and even replace damaged retinal ganglion cells with self - therapies that completely rebuild the optic nerve.
His areas of research include basic mechanisms of retinal cell death in glaucoma, neuroprotective glaucoma therapies, non-invasive imaging of glaucoma damage, and relationships between glaucoma and other chronic neurodegenerations such as Alzheimer's disease.
«Our findings suggest further investigation into the potential of MC1R - activating agents as novel neuroprotective therapies for PD, and together with epidemiological evidence, may offer information that could guide those carrying MC1R variants to seek advice from dermatologists or neurologists about their personal risk for melanoma and Parkinson's disease,» lead author Xiqun Chen says in a statement.