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Sandra Rocio Montezuma

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology

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20022022
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Research interests

Dr. Montezuma joined the department of Ophthalmology & Visual Neurosciences at the University of Minnesota (UMN) in 2010 as an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology/ Vitreoretinal surgery. She has subspecialty expertise in providing medical and surgical care for all retina diseases in adults and children. she received her M.D. from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dr. Montezuma completed her ophthalmology residency and her fellowship training at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/ Harvard Medical School. Dr. Montezuma is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a member of the AAO, ASRS, ARVO and PAAO.

Dr. Montezuma's research interest focus on retina prosthesis, age related macula degeneration and angiogenesis.

 

Keywords

  • Reitnal Prosthesis
  • Age Related Macula Degeneration
  • Angiogenesis
  • Reitna detachment
  • Pediatric retina

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Projects 2012 2022

A Phase III, Multicenter, randomized, visual,assessor-masked, active-comparator study of the efficacy,safety, and pharmacokinetics of the port delivery system with Ranibizumab in patients with neovascularage-related macular degeneration.

Montezuma, S. R. & Koozekanani, D.

Genentech Inc.

10/31/18 → 12/31/19

Project: Research project

Macular Degeneration
Pharmacokinetics
Safety
Ranibizumab

Study of a Prototype External System (A2E16) for the Arg

Montezuma, S. R.

SECOND SIGHT

6/1/18 → 7/31/19

Project: Research project

Prototype

Mitochondrial defects in the retinal pigment epithelium

Ferrington, D. A., Dutton, J. R. & Montezuma, S. R.

NIH NEI NATL EYE INST

4/1/18 → 3/31/22

Project: Research project

Retinal Pigment Epithelium
Macular Degeneration
Alleles

Second Sight Clinical Trial Contract

Montezuma, S. R.

SECOND SIGHT

7/1/17 → 6/30/19

Project: Research project

Contracts
Clinical Trials

Argus Retinal Prosthesis System

Montezuma, S. R., Koozekanani, D. & van Kuijk, E.

SECOND SIGHT

3/13/14 → 12/31/20

Project: Research project

Visual Prosthesis

Research Output 2002 2019

Author Correction: Retinal transcriptome and eQTL analyses identify genes associated with age-related macular degeneration (Nature Genetics, (2019), 51, 4, (606-610), 10.1038/s41588-019-0351-9)

Ratnapriya, R., Sosina, O. A., Starostik, M. R., Kwicklis, M., Kapphahn, B., Fritsche, L. G., Walton, A., Arvanitis, M., Gieser, L., Pietraszkiewicz, A., Montezuma, S. R., Chew, E. Y., Battle, A., Abecasis, G. R., Ferrington, D. A., Chatterjee, N. & Swaroop, A., Jan 1 2019, In : Nature Genetics.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

Open Access
Macular Degeneration
Gene Expression Profiling
Genes
1 Citation (Scopus)

ENDOGENOUS NOCARDIA ENDOPHTHALMITIS PRESENTING AS A MASS LESION IN A PATIENT WITH METATSTATIC NONSMALL CELL CARCINOMA OF THE LUNG

Lee, B., Drayna, P., Maltry, A., Mason, C. M., Montezuma, S. R. & Koozekanani, D., Mar 1 2019, In : Retinal cases & brief reports. 13, 2, p. 145-149 5 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Nocardia
Endophthalmitis
Neoplasm Metastasis
Carcinoma
Lung

Quantitative fundus autofluorescence in smokers compared to non-smokers

Wang, Y., Tran, T., Firl, K., Huang, N., Yasin, O., van Kuijk, E. & Montezuma, S. R., Jul 1 2019, In : Experimental Eye Research. 184, p. 48-55 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Smoking
Macular Degeneration
Retina
History
Ophthalmoscopes

Retinal transcriptome and eQTL analyses identify genes associated with age-related macular degeneration

Ratnapriya, R., Sosina, O. A., Starostik, M. R., Kwicklis, M., Kapphahn, B., Fritsche, L. G., Walton, A., Arvanitis, M., Gieser, L., Pietraszkiewicz, A., Montezuma, S. R., Chew, E. Y., Battle, A., Abecasis, G. R., Ferrington, D. A., Chatterjee, N. & Swaroop, A., Apr 1 2019, In : Nature Genetics. 51, 4, p. 606-610 5 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter

Quantitative Trait Loci
Macular Degeneration
Transcriptome
Genome-Wide Association Study
Genotype

“Genetic variants regulating retinal transcriptome (GREx) identify genes underlying age-related macular degeneration”.

Montezuma, S. R., Ratnapriya, R., Sosina, O. A., Starostik, M. R., Kwicklis, M., Kapphahn, B., Fritsche, L. G., Walton, A., Arvanitis, M., Gieser, L., Pietraszkiewicz, A., Chew, E. Y., Battle, A., Abecasis, G. R., Ferrington, D. A., Chatterjee, N. & Swaroop, A., Apr 2019, In : Nature Genetics. p. 606-610

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article