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Issam Al Diri, PhD

  • Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
  • Faculty Member, Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration

    Education & Training

  • Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Postdoctoral Associate
  • Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah, PhD
Research Interests
  • Transcriptional control of retinal cell fate specification
  • Nuclear architecture and epigenomic features during retinal development
  • Aberrations in chromatin structures in retinal neurodegenerative diseases
  • Chromatin regulation of retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE) formation and maintenance in healthy and degenerative retina

Publications