The Division for Development and Public Relations     DROR  SHARON,  ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY  Status : ACTIVE Birth place : SAFED (ISRAEL) Office Phone: 02-677-7112 Fax: E-Mail: drorsh@ekmd.huji.ac.il U.R.L:   Department Faculty   OPHTHALMOLOGY FACULTY OF MEDICINE Dept. Description   Academic Degree   Institution Year Ph.D. HEBREW UNIV. 1996   Academic Position   Year ASSOC. PROFESSOR 2011 SENIOR LECTURER 2003 LECTURER 2002   Research Interests Retinal disease: identifying the major genetic causes of inherited retinal diseases in Israeli and Palestinian populations; investigating the disease mechanisms and developing possible treatments.   Selected Publications Publication Title   Year Clinical evaluation of two consanguineous families with 2011 A homozygous frameshift mutation in BEST1 causes the classical 2011 Exome sequencing and cis-regulatory mapping identify mutations 2011 A missense mutation in DHDDS, encoding dehydrodolichyl 2011 Homozygosity mapping reveals null mutations in FAM161A as a 2010 Molecular anthropology meets genetic medicine to treat blindness 2010 Mutations in IMPG2, encoding interphotoreceptor matrix 2010 An ancient autosomal haplotype bearing a rare 2010 Novel null mutations in the EYS gene are a frequent cause of 2010 Variable retinal phenotypes caused by mutations in the x-linked 2010 The spectrum of retinal diseases caused by NR2E3 mutations in 2009 Lack of association between the C2 allele of transferrin and 2009 Loss of the metalloprotease ADAM9 leads to cone-rod dystrophy in 2009 Four USH2A founder mutations underlie the majority of Usher 2008 A novel de novo PAX6 mutation in an Ashkenazi-Jewish family with 2008 Microarray-based gene expression analysis during retinal 2008 A common founder mutation of CERKL underlies autosomal recessive 2007 Novel USH2A mutations in Israeli patients with retinitis 2007 A non-ancestral missense mutation in families with either 2007 Homozygosity for a novel ABCA4 founder splicing mutation is 2007 A complex expression pattern of PAX6 in the pigeon retina. 2007 Novel mutations in the cellular retinaldehyde-binding protein 2004 RP2 and RPGR mutations and clinical correlations in patients 2003 Shared mutations in NR2E3 in enhanced S-cone syndrome, 2003 Profile of the genes expressed in the human peripheral retina, 2002 Mutated alleles of the rod and cone Na-Ca+K-exchanger genes in 2002 Retinitis pigmentosa and allied diseases: Numerous diseases, 2002   © All rights reserved to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem