Dr. Anderson is the current Director of the Center for the Study of Macular Degeneration
and Research Biologist in the Neuroscience Research Institute. He received his
undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1969, and his Ph.D. in physiological
psychology at UCSB in 1974. Subsequently, he shifted his field of emphasis to
cellular neurobiology and spent several years as a National Institutes of Health
postdoctoral fellow focusing upon the process of membrane turnover in vertebrate
photoreceptors. During the past two decades, his research interests have focused
upon the numerous cellular and molecular interactions that take place between
the photoreceptors and the overlying layer of retinal pigment epithelial cells
in both health and disease. In keeping within this general theme, he has published
extensively on a variety of related topics that include: the process of photoreceptor
membrane turnover and phagocytosis; the degenerative and regenerative changes
that accompany retinal detachment and reattachment; the regulatory roles of growth
factors in the neural retina and retinal pigmented epithelium; and, most recently,
the biogenesis and molecular composition of the extracellular deposits that are
the hallmark lesion of age-related macular degeneration.
Contact Information
Phone: (805) 893-3144
Fax: (805) 893-2005
E-Mail: d_anders@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Office: Bio II, Room 5165
Mailing Address
Neuroscience Research Institute
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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