- Thomas Reh
Thomas A. Reh
Ph.D. is anUnited States scientist and author.He received his
B.Sc. inBiochemistry from theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1977 and his Ph.D. inNeuroscience from theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981. He went on to postdoctoral studies atPrinceton University in the lab of Martha Constantine-Paton. He is currently Professor of Biological Structure and Director of the Neurobiology and Behavior Program at theUniversity of Washington .The overall goal of Dr. Reh’s research is to understand the cell and
molecular biology of regeneration in theeye . He has worked at the interface between development and regeneration, focusing on theretina . The lab is currently divided into a team that studies retinal development and a team that studies retinal regeneration, with the goal of applying the principles learned from developmental biology to design rationale strategies for promoting retinal regeneration in the adult mammalian retina.His research has been funded through numerous grants from the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) and many private foundations, and he has served on several national and international grant review panels, including NIH study sections, and is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Foundation Fighting Blindness and of a start-up biotechnology company, Acucela. He has received several awards for his work, including the AHFMR and Sloan Scholar awards. He has published over 100 journal articles, reviews and books, nearly all in the field of retinal regeneration and development.Textbooks
Sanes, Reh, Harris (2005). Development of the Nervous System, 2nd edition. Academic Press; ISBN 0-12-618621-9
External links
Reh Lab [http://faculty.washington.edu/tomreh/]
Neurobiology and Behavior at the University of Washington [http://depts.washington.edu/behneuro/]
Biological Structure at the University of Washington [http://www.biostr.washington.edu/]
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