Iqbal Ahmad
Professor
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
University of Nebraska Medical Center
United States of America
Biography
B.S., Patna University, Patna, India M.S., Patna University, Patna, India Ph.D., Kent State University, Kent, OH
Research Interest
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of neural stem cells/progenitors maintenance and differentiation
Publications
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Del Debbio CB, Mir Q, Parameswaran S, Mathews S, Xia X, Zheng L, Neville AJ, Ahmad I. Notch signaling activates stem cell properties of müller glia through transcriptional regulation and Skp2-mediated degradation of p27Kip1. PloS one. 2016 Mar 24;11(3):e0152025.
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Xia X, Ahmad I. let-7 microRNA regulates neurogliogenesis in the mammalian retina through Hmga2. Developmental biology. 2016 Feb 1;410(1):70-85.
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Teotia P, Chopra DA, Dravid SM, Van Hook MJ, Qiu F, Morrison J, Rizzino A, Ahmad I. Generation of functional human retinal ganglion cells with target specificity from pluripotent stem cells by chemically defined recapitulation of developmental mechanism. Stem Cells. 2017 Mar 1;35(3):572-85.
