Cheryl Craft
- Professor, Ophthalmology and Cell & Neurobiology
- Founding Chair, Cell & Neurobiology
- Keck School of Medicine of USC
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Expertise Summary
An expert on the biological clock, melatonin, vision loss and age-related macular degeneration
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
Additional Information
- 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