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Dr. Anderson is the current Director of the Center for the Study of Macular Degeneration and Research Biologist in the Neuroscience Research Institute. He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1969, and his Ph.D. in physiological psychology at UCSB in 1974. Subsequently, he shifted his field of emphasis to cellular neurobiology and spent several years as a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow focusing upon the process of membrane turnover in vertebrate photoreceptors. During the past two decades, his research interests have focused upon the numerous cellular and molecular interactions that take place between the photoreceptors and the overlying layer of retinal pigment epithelial cells in both health and disease. In keeping within this general theme, he has published extensively on a variety of related topics that include: the process of photoreceptor membrane turnover and phagocytosis; the degenerative and regenerative changes that accompany retinal detachment and reattachment; the regulatory roles of growth factors in the neural retina and retinal pigmented epithelium; and, most recently, the biogenesis and molecular composition of the extracellular deposits that are the hallmark lesion of age-related macular degeneration
Contact Information
Phone: (805) 893-3144
Fax: (805) 893-2005
E-Mail: d_anders@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Office: Bio II, Room 6122
Mailing Address
Center for the Study of Macular Degeneration
Neuroscience Research Institute
University of California
Santa Barbara, California 93106
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