Come see us at ARVO 2025

Presentations:

Saturday 5/3/2025 3:55p-4:10p
Eye Pitch: Ending Vision Loss Through Epigenetic Innovation
Presenter: Hema Ramkumar, MD
Location: Ballroom A

Wednesday 5/7/2025, 3:00p-3:15p
Retinal BMI1 Overexpression Enhances Retinal Function in a Murine Spaceflight Model of Oxidative Stress in Microgravity
Presenter: Hema Ramkumar, MD
Location: Ballroom F
Presentation Number: 4646
Session ID: 438

Posters:
Thursday 5/8/2025, 11:45a-1:30p
Pharmacokinetics and Safety of Suprachoroidal delivery of AAV.BMI1 in Rabbits
Presenter: Zhongyang Lu, MD PhD
Location: Poster Hall A-E
Posterboard: A0159
Session ID: 535

Thursday 5/8/2025, 11:45a-1:30p
Retinal BMI1 Overexpression Protects against Sodium Iodate-Induced Outer Nuclear Layer Loss in a Murine Model
Presenter: Shufeng Liu
Location: Poster Hall A-E
Posterboard: A0160
Session ID: 535

PAST PUBLICATIONS:

1. Zhongyang Lu, Andy Whitlock, Ram Ramkumar, Hema Ramkumar; Pharmacokinetics and Safety of  Suprachoroidal Delivery of AAV.BMI1 in C57/B6 Mice. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2024;65(7):201.

2. Zhongyang Lu, Sibley Bardales, Christina Kim, Gary Mansfield, Hema Ramkumar; Pharmacokinetic and Safety Analyses of rAAV8.BMI1 in C57BL/6 mice. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2023;64(8):1137.

3. Hema Ramkumar, Zhongyang Lu, Maria Gabriela Morales, Ram Ramkumar; The Endogenous Expression of BMI1 in Adult Human Eyes. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2024;65(7):207.

4. Sibley Bardales, Zhongyang Lu, Andy Whitlock, Hema Ramkumar; Potency Assay for AAV vector Encoding BMI1 Protein for the Treatment of Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2023;64(8):1134

5. Lu Z, Morales MG, Liu S, Ramkumar H. The Endogenous Expression of BMI1 in Adult Human Eyes. Special issue: Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells in Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Cells 2024, 13 (19), 1672.