Molecular Medicine To The Rescue

Dr. Colins Barnstable, D. Phil, Yale University School of Medicine, USA and Joyce Tombran Tink, Ph.D., University of Missouri, Kansas, visited Sankara Nethralaya on April 4, 2005. They were taken to all the research labs and they spent little longer time in the departments where they had discussions on areas of mutual interests. They provided us with a soft copy of all their recent publications and have volunteered to help us with the data base information on the origin of the 88KD protein.

Later in the evening Dr. Colin Barnstable gave a lecture on "Growth factors and Neuroprotection in the retina" and Dr. Joyce Tombran Tink gave a lecture on "Control of cell death and cell survival in retinal diseases by PEDF," which was very informative as it elaborated on the therapeutic prospects of PEDF as an antiangiogenic and neuroprotective agent. A therapeutic intervention based on molecular medicine seems to be gaining momentum.