Associate Professor Rachel Wong

Associate Professor Rachel Wong
Washington University School of Medicine, USA

Project: Assembly of neural circuits during development

This project aims to understand how nerve cells wire up accurately during development.

It will determine how neuronal connections are established in the retina of the eye to produce a sensory structure essential for vision.

The program will also generate innovative tools for watching, in live animals, the making and breaking of connections during normal and abnormal development.

Discoveries will not only significantly increase knowledge of how the nervous system develops or degenerates, but the results will also provide crucial information for future studies, based on genetic approaches, drug therapies and bioengineering technology, to repair an injured human nervous system.

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