Dinna Zhou
About Dinna Zhou
MD and PhD student in the research group Eye surgery – basic research, epidemiology and clinical trials, with professor and chief physician/surgeon Madeleine Zetterberg as main supervisor, and Anne Petersen, Malin Hernebring and Julia Adelöf as co-supervisors. The PhD projects are conducted in collaboration with University 91̽»¨, Sahlgrenska University Hospital and AstraZeneca.
The PhD thesis aims to study proteolysis (proteindegradation) and proteinaggregation in retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells during oxidative stress in age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The research consists of primarily basic science, but also includes clinical research projects.