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Dr. Yau is Professor of Neuroscience and Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He received an A.B. degree in physics from Princeton University and a Ph.D. degree in neurobiology from Harvard University. He did postdoctoral research at Stanford University with Denis Baylor and at Cambridge University, England, with Alan Hodgkin. For five years thereafter, he was on the faculty at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Dr. Yau has received the Rank Prize in optoelectronics, the Friedenwald Award from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the Alcon Award, and the Magnes Prize from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:
King-Wai Yau is interested in the detection of sensory stimuli by the nervous system. His laboratory focuses particularly on the first stage of this process, namely, the transduction of sensory stimuli by the respective receptor neurons.
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