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Prof. PhD A.A.B. Bergen (Molecular etiology of complex genetic retinal disorders)
The aim of my group is to elucidate the molecular pathology of genetic retinal disorders. In the past, we successfully identified retinal disease genes (RP12, PXE and others), brought at least one disease (PXE) from gene mapping, gene identification, mouse model, functional characterisation toward now ongoing clinical trials, and made innovative molecular models for retinitis pigmentosa, age-related macular degeneration (ZonMW pearl prize) and glaucoma.
We currently focus on diseases of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE; age-related macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa) and ganglion cells (glaucoma).We have made reliable molecular models for these diseases, and we are now applying these to develop genomics-directed personalized medicine, advanced molecular diagnostics, and/or therapies. Depending on the research question, we use(d) a variety of methodologies and technologies, including human, mouse and zebrafish genetics, genomics, bioinformatics and functional assays.
After I came to the AMC in 2014, we set up, largely externally financed, IPS-stem-cell-to-RPE-differentiation cultures (retina's in a dish) and a brand-new, non- invasive, visual screening facility for small animal models. This facility includes SLO, OCT and ERG apparatus and technology. Together, the new stem cell cultures and visual screening facility greatly enhance our possibilities to study retinal disorders in vitro and in vivo, and paves the way for the development of experimental cell and gene therapies of genetic eye disorders. Indeed, we recently injected our IPS stem cell derived RPE cells successfully subretinally in suitable animal models for age-related macular degeneration, as a first step toward high quality experimental therapy. Our new visual screening facility for small animal models has also stirred up quite some collaborative interest form researchers working on (visual aspects of) genetic metabolic diseases, AMC), neurodegenerative disease (Alzheimer I-read centre, MS, VUMC location) and the retinoblastoma expertise center (VUMC, NKI). The results of our work are further enhanced by a multitude of national and international collaborations. In the UAMC location AMC , we have collaborations with the department of GMZ, peadatrics, ophthalmology, neurology, experimenta cardiology, medical virology, experimental neuro-endocrinology and the organoid centre.
Together with Prof dr CJF Boon (Ophthalmology department) we will start the first ocular genetherapy trial in the UAMC (CEP290 type retinitis pigmentosa) in 2019.
Postdocs
PhD R.J. Florijn
MEng PhD A.L.M.A. ten Asbroek
PhD Students
V. Lo Faro
S.T. Shumet
Others
J.B. ten Brink
- AMC
- AMC (Vrijgesteld)
- Rotterdamse Stichting Blindenbelangen
- Stichting AMC Foundation (Vrijgesteld)
- Stichting Metakids
- Stichting Vrienden van het Herseninstituut