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https://www.nri.ucsb.edu/news/2015/new-treatment-macular-degeneration-0

A New Treatment for Macular Degeneration | Neuroscience Research Institute (NRI) | UC Santa Barbara A patient receives the first human eye cell transplant developed by a UCSB neuroscientist who founded the London Project to Cure Blindness By Julie Cohen

Congrats to NRI Researcher Megan Valentine!

Mechanical Engineering Professor Chosen as Fulbright Scholar Megan Valentine aims to strengthen research ties between UCSB and ESPCI ParisTech

NRI researchers examine a shape-shifting protein in the brain to learn more about how form affects function - See more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2015/015037/body-s-transformers .dE7xB6Ww.dpuf

The Body’s Transformers Like the shape-shifting robots of “Transformers” fame, a unique class of proteins in the human body also has the ability to alter their configuration

Big congratulations to NRI researcher Denise Montell!

Winning NIH’s Biggest Award Denise Montell will explore whether anastasis (from the Greek meaning “rising to life”) plays a role in cancer

http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014239/cure-alzheimer%E2%80%99s-requires-parallel-effort

A Cure for Alzheimer’s Requires a Parallel Team Effort For people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, the rate of progress in developing effective therapeutics has been unacceptably slow