Dr. Christine M. Sorenson is currently affiliated with the Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She completed her PhD studies in Biochemistry at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She has published 138 papers, with an H-index of 51, and 9863 Citations (Google Scholar, 24 October 2023). The focus of her laboratory is to understand the role apoptotic processes play in vascular development and function. She and her colleagues have been focusing on the roles bcl-2 (anti-apoptotic) and bim (pro-apoptotic) members of the bcl-2 family play in these processes.
Dr. Nader Sheibani is a professor at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He has an H-index of 60 with 13,128 citations (Google Scholar, October 24, 2023). He holds the Retina Research Foundation Alice R. McPherson Research Chair position. He is also a trainer in Cellular and Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Pathology, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, and the Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Graduate Programs. His scientific interests are focused on the study of ocular vascular biology, diabetic retinopathy, retinopathy of prematurity, exudative age-related macular degeneration, drug development, and Metabolism and cellular function. For the first time in any research laboratory, he successfully isolated viable mouse retinal endothelial cells. A similar method has since been adopted to isolate other critical cell types of the mouse eye.
