MD/PhD Fellow ⚕️Founder/CEO @ Hyperion Therapeutics 👁 👨🎓UCLA 👨⚕️Case Med 🇺🇸 PA born & raised 🌴 SoCal where I spend most my days
Newport Beach, CA
Joined January 2014
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Thank you @NEIDirector for sharing the news of our discovery! A new class of drugs 💊 with potential to treat our world’s leading causes of blindness 👁
This is only the beginning… exciting developments coming soon, follow me for updates! 🔔
Beautiful work led by Krzysztof Palczewski & Jennings Luu:
Pharmacological strategy to slow retinal degeneration in retinitis pigmentosa & AMD. @UCIrvine @illuuminator @UCIMedSchool @UciCtvr #NEIfunded
@PNASNews: bit.ly/3nPiI2t
ALT Caption: Molecular mechanisms of stress resilience-enhancing drug (SRED) therapy. Retinal degeneration involves a complex, multifactorial combination of genetic factors and environmental exposures that accumulate over a lifetime and eventually overwhelm intrinsic stress resilience mechanisms, which can be enhanced pharmacologically by SREDs to alleviate disease and preserve vision.
