Some recent achievements and publications from Graduate Student Gabriel Velez from Dr. Vinit Mahajan's lab :

- Invited speaker at 2019 FASEB Calpains in Health & Disease Conference
- Received an F30 grant award from the NIH/National Eye Institute (NEI) - Structure and function of Calpain-5 in hereditary uveitis (1F30EY027986-01A1)
- Published a first author paper in JCI Insight that was featured in the press: Therapeutic drug repositioning using personalized proteomics of liquid biopsies
- Published a paper in the American Journal of Ophthalmology with Marc Toral: Personalized proteomics in proliferative vitreoretinopathy implicate hematopoietic cell recruitment and mTOR as a therapeutic target
- Published another first-author paper in Scientific Reports: Gene Therapy Restores Mfrp and Corrects Axial Eye Length