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Christine A. Curcio is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their research contributions primarily focus on medicine, with a significant emphasis on ophthalmology and related molecular biological fields.

Their scholarly work spans a wide range of topics within ophthalmology, including retinal diseases and treatments, retinal imaging and analysis, glaucoma and retinal disorders, as well as retinal development and disorders. Additional areas of their research include retinal and optic conditions, retinal and macular surgery, and metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies.

Christine A. Curcio has published extensively in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
  • Translational Vision Science & Technology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ophthalmology Retina
  • Ophthalmology Science

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Advances and prospects for the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP)", 2023, Nature Cell Biology
  • "Imaging Features Associated with Progression to Geographic Atrophy in Age-Related Macular Degeneration", 2020, Ophthalmology Retina
  • "Measuring the Contributions of Basal Laminar Deposit and Bruch's Membrane in Age-Related Macular Degeneration", 2020, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
  • "Hyperreflective Foci, Optical Coherence Tomography Progression Indicators in Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Include Transdifferentiated Retinal Pigment Epithelium", 2021, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
  • "Nonexudative Macular Neovascularization Supporting Outer Retina in Age-Related Macular Degeneration", 2020, Ophthalmology

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Jeffrey D. Messinger
  • K. Bailey Freund
  • Cynthia Owsley
  • Kenneth R. Sloan
  • Mark E. Clark

Christine A. Curcio's research integrates multiple subfields of study such as ophthalmology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, molecular biology, spectroscopy, and epidemiology.

Best Publications

  • Human photoreceptor topography

    Christine A. Curcio;Kenneth R. Sloan;Robert E. Kalina;Anita E. Hendrickson

  • Topography of ganglion cells in human retina.

    Christine A. Curcio;Kimberly A. Allen

  • A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants

    Lars G. Fritsche;Wilmar Igl;Jessica N.Cooke Bailey;Felix Grassmann

  • Photoreceptor loss in age-related macular degeneration.

    C A Curcio;N E Medeiros;C L Millican

  • Aging of the human photoreceptor mosaic: evidence for selective vulnerability of rods in central retina.

    C A Curcio;C L Millican;K A Allen;R E Kalina

  • Anatomical correlates to the bands seen in the outer retina by optical coherence tomography: literature review and model.

    Richard F Spaide;Christine A Curcio

  • Distribution of Cones in Human and Monkey Retina: Individual Variability and Radial Asymmetry

    Christine A. Curcio;Kenneth R. Sloan;Orin Packer;Anita E. Hendrickson

  • Distribution and morphology of human cone photoreceptors stained with anti-blue opsin.

    Christine A. Curcio;Kimberly A. Allen;Kenneth R. Sloan;Connie L. Lerea

  • Consensus Definition for Atrophy Associated with Age-Related Macular Degeneration on OCT: Classification of Atrophy Report 3.

    Srinivas R. Sadda;Robyn Guymer;Frank G. Holz;Steffen Schmitz-Valckenberg

  • Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Genetics and Biology Coming Together

    Lars G. Fritsche;Robert N. Fariss;Dwight Stambolian;Gonçalo R. Abecasis

  • Accumulation of cholesterol with age in human Bruch's membrane.

    C A Curcio;C L Millican;T Bailey;H S Kruth

  • Reticular pseudodrusen are subretinal drusenoid deposits.

    Sandrine A. Zweifel;Richard F. Spaide;Christine A. Curcio;Goldis Malek

  • Basal linear deposit and large drusen are specific for early age-related maculopathy.

    C A Curcio;C L Millican

  • Abundant lipid and protein components of drusen.

    Lan Wang;Mark E. Clark;David K. Crossman;Kyoko Kojima

  • The oil spill in ageing Bruch membrane

    Christine A. Curcio;Mark Johnson;Martin Rudolf;Jiahn Dar Huang

  • Subretinal drusenoid deposits in non-neovascular age-related macular degeneration: morphology, prevalence, topography, and biogenesis model.

    Christine A. Curcio;Jeffrey D. Messinger;Kenneth R. Sloan;Gerald McGwin

  • In vivo imaging of human cone photoreceptor inner segments.

    Drew Scoles;Yusufu N. Sulai;Christopher S. Langlo;Gerald A. Fishman

  • Drusen characterization with multimodal imaging.

    Richard F Spaide;Christine A Curcio

  • Retinal ganglion cells in Alzheimer's disease and aging.

    Christine A. Curcio;David N. Drucker

  • Photoreceptor degeneration and dysfunction in aging and age-related maculopathy

    Gregory R Jackson;Cynthia Owsley;Christine A Curcio

Frequent Co-Authors

K. Bailey Freund
K. Bailey Freund New York University
Cynthia Owsley
Cynthia Owsley University of Alabama at Birmingham
Gerald McGwin
Gerald McGwin University of Alabama at Birmingham
Richard F. Spaide
Richard F. Spaide Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
Lawrence A. Yannuzzi
Lawrence A. Yannuzzi Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
Dwight Stambolian
Dwight Stambolian University of Pennsylvania
Srinivas R. Sadda
Srinivas R. Sadda University of California, Los Angeles
Guido Gerig
Guido Gerig New York University
Mingyao Li
Mingyao Li University of Pennsylvania
Dennis M. Dacey
Dennis M. Dacey University of Washington

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