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Retinal Development and Disorders

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Mitchell L. Leibowitz
Broad Institute
2
Marco Herrera‐Barrera
Stanford University
3
Joshua Hahn
University of California, Berkeley
4
Alissa Muller
University of Basel
5
Dennis Jgamadze
University of Pennsylvania
6
Lucas Benoit
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble
7
Thomas Gruhl
Paul Scherrer Institute
8
Monika Moissidis
King's College London
9
Hao Wan
Affiliated Hospital of Taishan Medical University
10
Kaiqin She
Sichuan University

Papers

1
High-efficiency base editing in the retina in primates and human tissues
Nature Medicine|2025
44 cit.
2
Publication in Cell (2025) [19 citations, W4412447974]
Cell|2025
19 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Odette Mariani
Institut Curie
2
Tanglong Yuan
Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen
3
Yidi Sun
Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology
4
Gaurav Sahay
Oregon Health & Science University
5
Chaoran Ren
Jinan University
6
Fabio Cortesi
The University of Queensland
7
Peter Loskill
Natural and Medical Sciences Institute
8
Ping Yu
Harbin Institute of Technology
9
Ephraim F. Trakhtenberg
University of Connecticut
10
Robert J. Johnston
Johns Hopkins University

Papers

1
Engineering Lipid Nanoparticles for Enhanced Intracellular Delivery of mRNA through Inhalation
ACS Nano|2022
248 cit.
2
Peptide-guided lipid nanoparticles deliver mRNA to the neural retina of rodents and nonhuman primates
Science Advances|2023
229 cit.
3
Strategies for non-viral vectors targeting organs beyond the liver
Nature Nanotechnology|2023
134 cit.
4
Lipid nanoparticles with PEG-variant surface modifications mediate genome editing in the mouse retina
Nature Communications|2023
111 cit.
5
Breast cancer-on-chip for patient-specific efficacy and safety testing of CAR-T cells
Cell stem cell|2024
98 cit.
6
A visual circuit related to the periaqueductal gray area for the antinociceptive effects of bright light treatment
Neuron|2022
67 cit.
7
Leveraging Biological Buffers for Efficient Messenger RNA Delivery via Lipid Nanoparticles
Molecular Pharmaceutics|2022
59 cit.
8
Autologous Human Immunocompetent White Adipose Tissue‐on‐Chip
Advanced Science|2022
46 cit.
9
Thiophene-based lipids for mRNA delivery to pulmonary and retinal tissues
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2024
45 cit.
10
Rapid Generation of Circulating and Mucosal Decoy Human ACE2 using mRNA Nanotherapeutics for the Potential Treatment of SARS‐CoV‐2
Advanced Science|2022
41 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Constance L. Cepko
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2
Krzysztof Palczewski
University of California, Irvine
3
Thomas A. Reh
University of Washington
4
John E. Dowling
Harvard University
5
Joshua R. Sanes
Harvard University
6
Robin R. Ali
Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult
7
Carla J. Shatz
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
8
Anand Swaroop
Somerset Medical Center
9
Michael P. Stryker
University of California, San Francisco
10
Jeremy Nathans
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Papers

1
Crystal Structure of Rhodopsin: A G Protein-Coupled Receptor
Science|2000
5.6k cit.
2
Imaging Neuronal Subsets in Transgenic Mice Expressing Multiple Spectral Variants of GFP
Neuron|2000
3.1k cit.
3
Effect of Gene Therapy on Visual Function in Leber's Congenital Amaurosis
New England Journal of Medicine|2008
1.9k cit.
4
Molecular Genetics of Human Color Vision: The Genes Encoding Blue, Green, and Red Pigments
Science|1986
1.7k cit.
5
Modulation of Visual Responses by Behavioral State in Mouse Visual Cortex
Neuron|2010
1.7k cit.
6
A common progenitor for neurons and glia persists in rat retina late in development
Nature|1987
1.4k cit.
7
Organization of the retina of the mudpuppy, Necturus maculosus. II. Intracellular recording.
Journal of Neurophysiology|1969
1.4k cit.
8
Comprehensive Classification of Retinal Bipolar Neurons by Single-Cell Transcriptomics
Cell|2016
1.3k cit.
9
Highly Selective Receptive Fields in Mouse Visual Cortex
Journal of Neuroscience|2008
1.2k cit.
10
Synchronous Bursts of Action Potentials in Ganglion Cells of the Developing Mammalian Retina
Science|1991
1.1k cit.

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