Andrea S Viczian, PhD

Andrea S Viczian, PhD
Appointed 10/16/08
5321 Weiskotten Hall
766 Irving Ave.
Syracuse, NY 13210

315 464-9494

Current Appointments

Hospital Campus

  • Downtown

Research Programs and Affiliations

  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Biomedical Sciences Program
  • Neuroscience Program
  • Neuroscience and Physiology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Research Pillars

Education & Fellowships

  • Postdoctoral Fellow: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 2002, Developmental Biology
  • Postdoctoral Fellow: Marshall-Sherfield Fellow, University of Cambridge, 1999, Developmental Biology
  • PhD: University of California at Los Angeles, 1998, Neuroscience

Research Interests

  • Mammalian retinal stem cells formation; molecular mechanism of retinal cell fate decisions; using cell replacement therapy to heal the blinded eye.

Publications

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Research Abstract

For more information about my lab research interests, please follow this link:

http://www.centervisionresearch.org/Investigators/Andrea-S.-Viczian-Ph.D

 

Faculty Profile Shortcut: http://www.upstate.edu/faculty/vicziana

Faculty Honors

Dr. Dennis Stelzner has been elected a Fellow in the American Association of Anatomists. He was presented with a citation and plaque at the annual meeting of the American Association of Anatomists during the FASEB meeting on April 12, 2011 in Washington, DC.

The citation reads:
Spinal cord injury (SCI) has been studied during his entire career using neuroanatomical and ultrastructural methods. He showed that the ability of nerve tracts to regenerate or grow around partial SCI during development is dependent on their maturation at the time of injury.

Differences were also found in the ability of frog optic and tectal efferent axons to regenerate through the same diencephalic injury. The intrinsic cellular response needed for CNS axons to regenerate is the focus of his present work on propriospinal neurons using "molecular neuroanatomy" to determine factors underlying a maximal regenerative response after spinal cord injury.