Kristen Pitts
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Undergraduate university: Kenyon College
Research summary
Age-related macular degeneration is a blinding disease that features pathologic increases in intracellular lipid burden in RPE cells. I devised a novel model that recapitulates RPE dyslipidemia in vitro which may be useful for probing underlying mechanisms of lipophagy in this cell type.
Graduate publications