Research Assistant 428 Dodge Hall of Engineering (248) 370-2098 dang@oakland.edu

Biography
Loan received a B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Saigon in Vietnam in 1970 and biology at Townson State University in Maryland. To broaden her scientific knowledge, she attended Wayne State University and Michigan State University with interest in biomedical electron and confocal microscopy. Loan held a position of research assistant for 10 years in the Physiology Department at the Kresge Eye Institute at Wayne State University. She has been an assistant researcher and manager of the ERI Electron Microscopy Core facility for the past 15 years.

Loan’s hobbies include creating websites and volunteer work with senior citizens.

Research
Loan assists investigators in the Eye Research Institute to utilize Transmission and Scanning Electron Microscopy for their research. Current interests include the effects of oxidative stress on lens viabilty and the various metabolic factors that can influence retinal physiology and degeneration.

Publications

V. N. Reddy, L.-R. Lin, Y.-S. Ho, J.-L. Magnenat, N. Ibaraki, F. J. Giblin, L. Dang, “Peroxide-Induced Damage in Lenses of Transgenic Mice with Deficient and Elevated Levels of Glutathione Peroxidase” Ophthalmologica 1997;211:192-200.

Margulis, A., Pozdnyakov ,N., Dang, L., and Sitaramayya . “Soluble guanylate cyclase and nitric oxide synthase in synaptosoma fractions of bovine reeetina” Visual Neuroscience, 1998 15:867-873 . l Abstracts

“Kinase inhibitors and adenosine protect the corneal endothelial barrier against oxidative and low calcium insult.” M. V. Riley, Cl. A. Starnes, L. Dang, S. R. Gordon, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, Eye Research Institute and Department of Biological Sciences (for ARVO meeting).2000.

“Effect of Hyperbaric oxygen on antioxidant enzyme mRNA levels in cultured human lens epithelial cells.” V. A. Padgaonkar, D. A. Carper, V. R. Leverenz, S. C. Chen, L. Dang, N. J. Unakar, V. N. Reddy, and F. J. Giblin, Eye Research Institute, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, National Eye Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (for ARVO meeting). 2000.