Shelley Boyd

Biography

ontact information St. Michael's Hospital 209 Victoria St. Rm 4036 Toronto Ontario M5H 1T8 Phone: 416-864-6060 Ext: 2893 Fax: 416-864-6077 Email: boyds@smh.ca Research location: St. Michael's Hospital/Research Institute Primary Research Area: Brain & Neuroscience Secondary Research Area: Human Development & Aging Research Statement: Our team focuses on the mechanisms and potential treatments of blinding eye disease.  We take a fully integrated translational approach that includes pre-clinical models of disease, biomarker development, and early and late phase clinical trial.  ontact information St. Michael's Hospital 209 Victoria St. Rm 4036 Toronto Ontario M5H 1T8 Phone: 416-864-6060 Ext: 2893 Fax: 416-864-6077 Email: boyds@smh.ca Research location: St. Michael's Hospital/Research Institute Primary Research Area: Brain & Neuroscience Secondary Research Area: Human Development & Aging Research Statement: Our team focuses on the mechanisms and potential treatments of blinding eye disease.  We take a fully integrated translational approach that includes pre-clinical models of disease, biomarker development, and early and late phase clinical trial. 

Research Interest

Presently our lab focuses on Age Related Macular Degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the western world. We have a unique model that develops so-called “dry” AMD, which accounts for approximately 85% of all cases and for which there is no cure. To provide a direct link between clinical observation and disease modelling, we use the same in vivo imaging techniques that are used to evaluate patients – and we couple this with tissue analysis. This allows us, for the first time, to make novel correlations between clinical findings and pathogenesis. We have shown a role of the innate immune system in disease progression. Current studies focus on novel therapeutics, drug delivery and tissue repair.