Jane Caroline Sowden is a British biologist who is Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust.
10 Facts About Jane Sowden
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Jane Sowden's research investigates eye formation and repair by developing a better understanding the genetic pathways that regulate eye development.
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Jane Sowden moved to University College London for her doctorate where she studied the carbonic anhydrase I gene.
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Jane Sowden was awarded a career development award in 1996, and spent four years working on retinal development at the Institute of Ophthalmology.
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Jane Sowden established the eye development and repair research group at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
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Jane Sowden looks to understand the genetic pathways that underpin eye development.
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Jane Sowden is interested in how these pathways are disrupted in patients with eye disease.
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Jane Sowden has explored whether stem cells can be used to repair diseased retinal neurons during retinal diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa.
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Jane Sowden has explored whether the ciliary epithelium can be used to generate progenitor cells for photoreceptors.
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Jane Sowden has shown that the developing retina contains a population of rod photoreceptor precursor cells, which can be transplanted into a diseased retina to restore vision.