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King-Wai Yau W-1496

Dr. King-Wai Yau, PhD

  • Award Recipient

Research Summary

The proposed research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will be to continue Yau’s on-going work on rods and cones as well as ipRGCs, and to explore the interactions between these cells and their neighboring environment in the eye.

Research Title:

Rod/Cone and Non-Rod/Non-Cone Photoreception in the Eye

Award Year: 2019
Institution at Time of Award: Johns Hopkins University

Selected Additional Awards & Honors:

HHMI Investigator

Howard Hughes Medical Institute 1986

Member of the National Academy of Medicine

The National Academy of Sciences 2018

Member of the National Academy of Science

The National Academy of Sciences 2010