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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 […]
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!
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.
2019-03-30 Leung Lab attended the the 134th Annual Meeting for the Indiana Academy of Science
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Emre Coskun, Rebecca James, Logan Ganzen, Truc Kha and Yuk Fai Leung attended the 134th Annual Meeting for the Indiana Academy of Science in Indianapolis, IN on March 30th, 2019. All students presented at the meeting.
2018-11-12 Emre presented his undergraduate research project at Purdue Fall Undergraduate Research Exposition
Saturday, November 17, 2018
On 11/12/2018, Emre Coskun attended the Purdue Fall Undergraduate Research Exposition and presented a poster of his undergraduate reserarch work on “A Pharmacological Model of TRPA1-Mediated Nociception in the Zebrafish for Therapeutic Discovery”. This project was conceived by our graduate student Logan Ganzen. Logan and Emre worked closely to develop the foundation of this research […]