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Kaja Lab trainees awarded three competitive Illinois Society for Prevention of Blindness awards
Kaja Lab trainees awarded three competitive Illinois Society for Prevention of Blindness awards
Kaja Lab trainees awarded three competitive Illinois Society for Prevention of Blindness awards
Congratulations to Maha Khokhar (Mitochondrial antioxidants for ocular surface disease), Varun Shravah (Ex vivo choroidal sprouting assays) and Dr. Lee Troughton (Cytoskeletal mechanosensors in the trabecular meshwork) for being awarded a 2024 ISPB Research grant!
Publication Alert: Role of Loxl1 in Reactive Astrocytosis
Kaja Lab trainees awarded three competitive Illinois Society for Prevention of Blindness awards
Kaja Lab trainees awarded three competitive Illinois Society for Prevention of Blindness awards
March 2024:The Kaja Lab published an article in Experimental Eye Research describing the critical role of LOXL1 in reactive astrocytosis and the effects on neuron-glia signaling.
Hariani et al. 2023
Publication Alert: Immune System and Wet AMD - Review Article
Kaja Lab trainees awarded three competitive Illinois Society for Prevention of Blindness awards
Bhuvanachandra awarded grant from the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness
November 2023: The Kaja Lab contributed to a review highlighting the roles of the immune system, inflammation, and autoantigens in wet age-related macular degeneration.
doi: 10.3390/life13122236
Bhuvanachandra awarded grant from the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness
Kaja Lab trainees awarded three competitive Illinois Society for Prevention of Blindness awards
Bhuvanachandra awarded grant from the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness
June 2023: Congratulations to Bhuvanachandra the award of an Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness (ISPB) research grant for her project "Effect of recombinant human proteoglycan 4 (hPRG4) on histamine release from mast cells".
Publication Alert: Alcohol elicits corneal toxicity in vitro and in vivo.
Publication Alert: Alcohol elicits corneal toxicity in vitro and in vivo.
Publication Alert: Alcohol elicits corneal toxicity in vitro and in vivo.
June 2023: The Kaja Lab published an article in the Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics describing the mechanisms of alcohol toxicity on the cornea.
Ghosh et al., 2023
Sana Iqbal wins top Student Poster Presentation award
Publication Alert: Alcohol elicits corneal toxicity in vitro and in vivo.
Publication Alert: Alcohol elicits corneal toxicity in vitro and in vivo.
May 2023: Congratulations to Sana for being awarded the top Student Poster Presentation award at the Midwest Regional Chapter of the Society of Toxicology meeting in Mundelein, IL.
Simon Kaja received Runner-Up Prize for Advising and Mentoring
Publication Alert: Alcohol elicits corneal toxicity in vitro and in vivo.
Simon Kaja received Runner-Up Prize for Advising and Mentoring
May 2023: Simon Kaja was awarded the Runner-Up Prize of the Alice B. Hayes Award for Advising and Mentoring at Loyola University Chicago, recognizing his efforts to Medical and Graduate Education.
Vidhya Rao receives Fight for Sight Grant-in-Aid
Publication Alert: Alcohol elicits corneal toxicity in vitro and in vivo.
Simon Kaja received Runner-Up Prize for Advising and Mentoring
September 2022: Congratulations to Vidhya for being awarded a Fight for Sight Grant-in-Aid for her proposal entitled "Antioxidant therapy using manganese porphyrins for the treatment of particulate matter-induced dry eye disease in rabbits".
Sana Iqbal awarded the James McKechnie Award by ISPB
Publication Alert: Novel preclinical model for pollutant-induced ocular surface disease
Publication Alert: Novel preclinical model for pollutant-induced ocular surface disease
May 2022: Congratulations to Sana for being awarded the James McKechnie award by the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness for her project entitled "Novel therapeutic approaches to ADC-associated corneal toxicity"
Publication Alert: Novel preclinical model for pollutant-induced ocular surface disease
Publication Alert: Novel preclinical model for pollutant-induced ocular surface disease
Publication Alert: Novel preclinical model for pollutant-induced ocular surface disease
January 2022: The Kaja Lab published an article in the Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics describing a novel rabbit model for particulate matter-induced dry eye disease.
Ghosh AK, Bacellar-Galdino M, et al., 2022 doi:10.1089/jop.2021.0131