Cheryl Craft
An expert on the biological clock, melatonin, vision loss and age-related macular degeneration
Professor, Ophthalmology and Cell & Neurobiology
Founding Chair, Cell & Neurobiology
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Contact at: (323) 442-6692, (323) 442-6695 or ccraft@usc.edu
Expertise:
- biological clock
- melatonin and pineal gland
- vision and visual loss
- genetic alterations and gene defects in vision
- age-related macular degeneration
- retinitis pigmentosa
- G-protein coupled receptors
- phototransduction
- Arrestin
- phosducin
- S-antigen
- Recipient, 2008 Research To Prevent Blindness Senior Scientific Investigator Award
- Speaker, 2009 Distinguished Lecture, Dean McGee Eye Institute, University of Oklahoma HSC
- 2009 Honoree, John Douglas French Alzheimer's Foundation Founding Association
- Recipient, 2009 Distinguished Scientist/The MUSES Woman of the Year Award
More:
For information on the Mary D. Allen Laboratories For Vision Research, click here.
More information on Cheryl Craft can be found at:
http://www.usc.edu/programs/neuroscience/faculty/profile.php?fid=9
http://pibbs.usc.edu/faculty/profile/?fid=9
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