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Beichen’s Defense and Commencement
Friday, January 23, 2026
On 11/25/2025, Beichen earned his doctorate following the successful defense of his doctoral dissertation, entitled “Discovering New Drugs for Retinitis Pigmentosa by Machine Learning Analysis of Zebrafish Visual Behavior.”
Beichen’s commencement ceremony took place on 21 December 2025. We wish him every success in his career and a bright future ahead.
Jillian New and Beichen Wang presented at the 140th Annual Academy Meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science.
Monday, August 11, 2025
Jillian New, Beichen Wang, and Yuk Fai Leung attended the 140th Annual Academy Meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science in Indianapolis, IN. Jillian presented her work on “Evaluating Methotrexate as a Therapeutic Agent in Zebrafish Models of Retinitis Pigmentosa“. Beichen presented his work on “A zebrafish functional screen identifies hits from FDA-approved drugs for inherited retinal degeneration”. All students were well fed.
Beichen Wang presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
Friday, May 5, 2023
Beichen Wang attended the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) in New Orleans, LA from 2023-04-23 to 27. He gave an oral presentation on “A zebrafish functional screen identifies leads from FDA-approved drugs for treating retinitis pigmentosa”.
Leung Lab Christmas Party 2022!
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
We ate well to hibernate before the winter storm hit us!
The Leung Lab attended the Heatland Vision Science Symposium
Saturday, August 13, 2022
Our lab has started to travel again after several years of hiberation due to COVID. The first trip we recent had was to attend the Heartland Vision Science Symposium at the Glick Eye Institute at Indiana University School of Medicine. We met many old and new friends. Beichen presented his current project to the audience. His talk’s title was “In vivo drug screening for night blindness using zebrafish visual behaviour”.
Truc presented her retinal-degeneration research at the SURF Research Symposium
Saturday, August 3, 2019
On 8/1/2019, Truc Kha presented her research work on retinitis pigmentosa, a form of retinal degeneration, at the SURF Research Symposium.
Truc presenting her research work on retinal degeneration.
My visit to ZhongShan Ophthalmic Center at Sun Yat-Sen University
Thursday, July 18, 2019
I was invited by Prof. Chunqiao Liu to visit ZhongShan Ophthalmic Center at Sun Yat-Sen University from 2019-05-27 to 05-29.
Zhongshan Opthalmic Center. They have two beautiful buildings: one for clinical service, and another one for research.
The clinical building has more than 20 floors! The research building also has 10 floors!
What a great view at the top of the clinical building!
I had a great interaction with Prof. Liu’s group and many other professors in the institute. They are doing top-notch research work!
Profs. Chunqiao Liu and Yuk Fai Leung
I gave a seminar on our drug discovery using zebrafish to colleagues at ZhongShan Ophthalmic Center.