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X-Sci 2004 Speaker

Stacey Moreno

Education and Experience
Graduated from Granite Hills High School (El Cajon) 1997
Participated in TSRI High School Student Research Education Program, Summer 1997
Worked at TSRI part-time, 1997-2001
Graduated UCSD, B.S. in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, 2001
Promoted to Research Technician at TSRI
SDSU Master's program in Regulatory affairs, Sept 2001 - August 2003 (night school while working full-time)
Promoted to Research Assistant I in January 2004

Awards & Activities
Various meetings in Florida and San Francisco to present work

Research Focus
Our laboratory is interested in understanding underlying mechanisms of ocular angiogenesis and the abnormalities in this process that lead to retinal vascular disease. I am involved specifically in characterizing a subpopulation of hematopoietic stem cells that target and rescue degenerating blood vessels in the eye and hope to develop this model further for the cell-based treatment of ocular neovascularization.

Selected References
Dorrell MI, Otani A, Aguilar E, Moreno SK, Friedlander M. (2004). Adult bone marrow-derived stem cells utilize R-cadherin to target sites of neovascularization in the developing retina. Blood, January 15.

M.R. Ritter, S.K. Moreno, et al (2003). Identifying Potential Regulators of Infantile Hemangioma Progression through Large-scale Expression Analysis: A Possible Role for the Immune System and Indoleamin 2,3 Dioxygnease (IDO) during Involution. Lymphatic Research and Biology, Vol. 1, No. 4