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      <img src="/_resources/MSMimages/FacultyDirectoryImages/Neurobiology/WooKuenLo.jpg" alt="Woo Kuen Lo, Ph.D."></img>
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   <name>Woo Kuen Lo, Ph.D.</name>
   <title>Professor </title>
   <department>Neurobiology</department>
   <title2></title2>
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   <email>wlo@msm.edu</email>
   <phone>(404) 752-1558 </phone>
   <location>Medical Education Building, 305</location>
   <education>
      <strong>GRADUATE:
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      </strong>Wayne State University
      <strong>
         <br></br>Degree: 
      </strong>
      <span>Doctor of Philosophy in Anatomy</span>
      <br></br>
      <br></br>State University of New York at Geneseo
      <strong>
         <br></br>Degree: 
      </strong>
      <span>Master of Art in Biology
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         <strong>UNDERGRADUATE:
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         </strong>National Taiwan Normal University
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         <strong>Degree: </strong>Bachelor of Science in Biology
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      </span>
   </education>
   <research>
      <p>Visual Science
         <br></br>
         <br></br>Lens Cell Biology and Mechanism of Cataract Formation
      </p>
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   </research>
   <boardcerts></boardcerts>
   <publications>
      <p>Biswas S, Son A, Yu Q, Zhou R, 
         <strong>Lo WK</strong>. Breakdown of interlocking domains may contribute to formation of membranous globules
         and lens opacity in ephrin-A5(-/-) mice. Exp Eye Res. 2016 Apr;145:130-139.
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      </p>
      <p>Cheng C, Nowak RB, Gao J, Sun X, Biswas SK, 
         <strong>Lo WK</strong>, Mathias RT, Fowler VM. Lens ion homeostasis relies on the assembly and/or stability
         of large connexin 46 gap junction plaques on the broad sides of differentiating fiber
         cells. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2015 May 15;308(10):C835-47.
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      </p>
      <p>Biswas SK, Brako L, Gu S, Jiang JX, 
         <strong>Lo WK</strong>. Regional changes of AQP0-dependent square array junction and gap junction associated
         with cortical cataract formation in the Emory mutant mouse.Exp Eye Res. 2014 Oct;127:132-42.
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      </p>
      <p>Biswas SK, Brako L, 
         <strong>Lo WK</strong>. Massive formation of square array junctions dramatically alters cell shape but does
         not cause lens opacity in the cav1-KO mice. Exp Eye Res. 2014 Aug;125:9-19.
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      </p>
      <p>
         <strong>Lo WK</strong>, Biswas SK, Brako L, Shiels A, Gu S, Jiang JX. Aquaporin-0 targets interlocking domains
         to control the integrity and transparency of the eye lens.  Invest Ophthalmol Vis
         Sci. 2014 Mar 3;55(3):1202-12.
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      </p>
      <p>Click 
         <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=woo+kuen+lo">here</a> to view additional publications.
      </p>
   </publications>
   <awards>
      <p>2017: President and Dean’s Distinguished Faculty Award
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         <br></br>2008: Dean’s Outstanding Research Award (Morehouse School of Medicine)
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         <br></br>1990-1987: Research Career Development Award (Attached to NIH R01Grant)
         <br></br>
         <br></br>1981: Fight for Sight Citation for Significant Contribution to Vision Research, The
         Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
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      </p>
   </awards>
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