Wolfgang Baehr, Ph.D.
Ralph and Mary Tuck Professor of Ophthalmology
Adjunct Professor of Biology
Adjunct Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy
Director, Wynn Center for the Study of Retinal Degnerations
John A. Moran Eye Center
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Utah Health Science Center
65 Mario Capecchi Dr.
Salt Lake City UT 84132
Phone 801-585-6643
Fax 801-585-1515
Email wbaehr@hsc.utah.edu
http://uuhsc.utah.edu/moraneyecenter/retinawb/
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Wolfgang Baehr
was born in Mannheim, Germany, and studied organic chemistry at the University of Heidelberg. His postdoctoral career was devoted to the study of biochemistry and biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany. His career in the field of “retina research” was launched in the Department of Biochemistry, Princeton University, in 1976, in the laboratory of Dr. Meredithe L. Applebury. After intermediate positions at Purdue University and the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Montana, Dr. Baehr joined the faculty at the Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas, as assistant professor in 1988. He was awarded a Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness professorship from 1987 – 1994. Major achievements of this period were: generation of one of the first transgenic mouse models for autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa, identification of specific gene defects in the rd1 mouse and the rcd1 Irish setter, and the identification of GCAP1 and GCAP2 as Ca2+-dependent activators of guanylate cyclase. In 1995, Dr. Baehr was appointed Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of a Foundation Fighting Blindness Center at the John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah. His research addresses the biochemistry and molecular biology of phototransduction and the visual cycle with focus on gene defects causative for human retina disease. In his basic science career, Dr. Baehr has published or co-authored more than 145 manuscripts -- covering topics in inorganic and organic chemistry, biophysics, biochemistry, molecular biology, bacteriology, infectious disease and genetics.
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Visual Cycle
Phototransduction
Return to the dark state
GC/GCAP
cGMP levels and retina disease
Photoreceptor Genes
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Research interests:
Mammalian Phototransduction
Visual Cycle
Animal Models of Retinal Degeneration
Vesicular transport in photoreceptors