Homeostasis
Restoring epithelial and neuronal homeostasis with lacritin
No one had addressed dry eye using an unbiased biochemical screen. We did so and discovered and named 'lacritin'. Lacritin promotes basal tearing and wound healing of the eye although a tear protein. It is now apparent that lacritin is also in plasma and CSF.
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Lab Alums
Asrani, Anil MBA
Beck, Shannon MS
Beers, Madeline
Brion Garza, Rocio-Maria
Cao-Xue, Jerry
Carroll, Will MD
Chen, Lanlin PhD
Conlon, David
Crisostomo, Caroline
DeLong, Stephanie
Dias Teixeira, Karina PhD
Dixon, Karen MS
Evans, Lara MD
Fields, Nicole
Glass, James MD
Gomez, Diego
Gould, Katherine
Haithcock, Daniel MD
Hamou, Samara
Haseltine, Liana
Holland, Joe
Karnati, Roy PhD
Karnik, Komal JD, MPH
Kumar, Rajesh PhD
Lawrence, Carrol
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Leardkamokarn, Vijittra PhD
Lian, Caroline
Lumsden, Angela PhD, MD
Ma, Peisong PhD
Magloire, Valerie MD
Mao, Leran
Matter, Michelle PhD
McArdle, Michael MD
Ming, Liu PhD
Mo Kim, Seung MD
Pogany, Gabor PhD
Sharifian, Mohammad, PhD
Sharp, Jeremy
Singh, Rashmi
Skroejer (Ozyildirim), Aylin
Sluss, Jim MD
Sotosky, Jonathan
Srikantan, Subramanya PhD
Stone, Cameron MD
Talla, Venu PhD
Tian, Jaimin
Tousignant, Jennifer
Tran, Jennifer MD
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Tran, Tuyet-Minh
Tummarello, Jennifer DDS
Tyler, Milton IV MD
Velez, Francisco
Waltman, Amanda
Walton, Staci PhD
Wang, Jiahu PhD
Wang, Ningning
Watkins, Amber
Witmer, Matthew MD
Xie, Jingling PhD
Yu-Mei Hsu, Ruby
Ryan, Margaret MS
Saha Sanghamitra PhD
Sanghi, Sandhya PhD
Sankoorikal, Kevin-Jude
Schick, Vladislav MD
Scott (Bowman), Katherine PhD
Scott, Christopher MD
Sharma, Ashish MD
Zimmerman, Keith
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The Lacritin Consortium of collaborators has been active since 2002
Lacritin Consortium
Partial list of collaborators
Katelyn Earls
Denise Ryan
Kay Sia
- tear collection
Fort Belvoir
(DOD)
Sarah Knox
- preclinical on Aire-/- mice; new Aire-/- model development
UCSF
Mihaela Gadjeva &
Jerry Pier
- bactericidal activity in mouse model; P. aeruginosa
Harvard
University
Bob McKown
- tear analysis, recombinant lacritin
James Madison University
Nancy McNamara
- preclinical on Aire-/- dry eye mice
UC Berkeley
Sunil Chauhan
- immmuno-suppression
Harvard
University
Andrew MacKay
Sarah Hamm-Alvarez
- exosome release, corneal wound healing, contact lens release
University
of Southern
California
Georgi Georgiev
- mass balance analyses of lacritin peptides and tear lipids
University of
Sofia
Harumitsu
Hirata
- preclinical rat neurophysiology
retired from
Cornell
University
Gordon W. Laurie, PhD
Professor of Cell Biology, Ophthalmology & Biomedical Engineering
PO Box 800732, UVA Health System
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22908-0732
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