Jason Miller

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Jason Miller

@JasonMLMiller

RPE biologist and physician scientist studying the pathogenesis of dry macular degeneration. Passionate about mentorship, science, patients, and family.

Kellogg Eye Center, UofMich. Katılım Ağustos 2021

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·21 Nis

I'm grateful beyond words for the opportunity Mr. Grosfeld has provided to advance dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) research at @UMKelloggEye. I look forward to directing this initiative and welcome new ideas for tackling this devastating disease. #maculardegeneration

U-M Kellogg Eye Center@UMKelloggEye

NEW: An $11.5 million gift from Philanthropist James Grosfeld will fuel innovation in dry age-related macular degeneration research, the leading cause of irreversible blindness in people over 50. michmed.org/4QWGQ

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·22 Nis

Postdoc extraordinaire John Han had a check-in meeting with me last week in which he dropped a huge pile of exciting data in my lap, including cool findings linking RPE metabolism to deposits. This pic doesn't do justice to my giddiness. Science=hard but cool findings=exhirating.

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·3 Nis

This absolutely shocking graph underscores how much high profile publishing is on an unsustainable path. This can't keep going on this trend if any researcher wants to survive without complete burnout and exhaustion.

Sasha Gusev@SashaGusevPosts

Monthly median Received to Accepted time (days) at Nature Genetics

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·1 Mar

When I sent our senior graduate student Kaitlyn a Jason-esque tome of ideas to consider for a paper she is writing via SLACK, here was her pithy response.

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·12 Ara

Science funding was insanely rough this year, and it was easy to fall into a trap of being demoralized. But the teamwork and can-do spirit of our lab really did lift me. Read about these awesome characters of the Miller lab: tinyurl.com/2fyf45t8

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·12 Ara

So we treated with plasma exchange to remove culprit antibodies, and ellipsoid zone recovered as did vision (to a degree) after 3 months of treatment - to 20/60 in each eye. 3/3 tinyurl.com/42sne5kk

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·12 Ara

More ONL remained than you'd expect with hand motion vision, so we postulated some antibody-mediated photoreceptor dysfunction rather than photoreceptor death accounted for decreased vision, akin to the mechanism for autoimmune encephalitis. 2/3

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·12 Ara

A clinical🧵. Starting checkpoint inhibitor therapy for cancer can result in double-whammy, where cancer-associated retinopathy accelerates as the checkpoint inhibitor unleashes already primed immune response. In this case, hand motion vision in both eyes after a few weeks. 1/3

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·27 Eyl

I appear to have forgotten the memo to not wear salmon pants to Retina Society meeting this past month. With part of the @UMKelloggEye contingent plus alumni.

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·16 Eyl

Overheard at #RD2025 meeting and @_BrightFocus sponsored #AMDMacularFastTrack as career advice by Rob Mullins: "Basic scientists, please talk to clinicians. Clinicians, please talk to basic scientists. Physician-scientists, you probably already talk to yourselves." FACT!

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·9 Eyl

I learned a lot participating in the upcoming chapter in Ryan's Retina 8th edition about mitochondrial DNA mutations and retinal degeneration. Thanks to Deborah Ferrington and Peng Shang @DohenyEye and John Han, post-doc in our lab, for collaborative co-authorship.

U-M Kellogg Eye Center@UMKelloggEye

Ryan's Retina is one of the most prominent retina textbooks for medical experts. The latest edition will have three chapters from Kellogg Eye Center faculty!

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·6 Tem

Thankful that graduate students are talking about the sheer feeling of doom and chaos that exists in American science right now. A large part of America's innovation can be traced to education and research from our universities and that is being wiped away.

The Sacramento Bee@sacbee_news

I became a scientist, but I don’t know if my career will exist in five years | Opinion sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/…

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·8 May

Impromptu peroxisome interest club at ARVO.

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·26 Nis

@sfortma2 @JExpMed Seth, especially appreciative of seeing the whole thread. I have to stop thinking of RPE by itself! Is lipid accumulation known to happen in choroid itself (not just Bruch's)? CONGRATS on this monumental project @sfortma2 !

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Seth Fortmann@sfortma2·23 Nis

The eye 👁️ is one of the great enigmas of the immune system. It's the prototypical immune-privileged organ & yet paradoxically has a rich ecosystem of immune cells. I'm happy to add a new piece to this puzzle from my PhD on human choroidal immune cells in health & AMD 🧵 @JExpMed

Journal of Experimental Medicine@JExpMed

Fortmann @sfortma2, Grant et al. @UABophtho unravel the immune landscape of the human choroid in health and age-related #maculardegeneration. hubs.la/Q03jnGYY0 #CardiovascularBiology #Neuroinflammation #InnateImmunity #inflammation

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·9 Mar

A piece of great news. We will look for small molecule inducers of RPE autophagy that do not directly inhibit mTOR as a therapeutic for dry AMD (mTOR inhibition is not great for RPE health). And then study better ways to get inducers to the RPE in vivo.

U-M Kellogg Eye Center@UMKelloggEye

🎉 Exciting News from Kellogg Eye Center! 🎉 Congratulations to Tom Wubben & Jason Miller for being selected as the 2025 recipients of the Edward N & Della L Thome Memorial Foundation Awards in AMD! 🏆✨ Their work is a testament to excellence in AMD research. 🥳👏

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·23 Şub

At the Ryan Initiative for Macular Research (RIMR - rimr.doheny.org), we discussed whether AMD is one or multiple diseases. TLDR: There are key subtypes, but they blend into each other and we need more sophisticated analysis to better distinguish. tinyurl.com/3dwb27se

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·15 Şub

@SheldonRowan Thanks @SheldonRowan! Great antibodies and easy to detect.

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Sheldon Rowan@SheldonRowan·14 Şub

@JasonMLMiller This is a great marker! Robust assays to detect and tonnes of known biology about the protein. Awesome contribution to the field!

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·14 Şub

We sought a better marker of basal polarized secretion in the RPE, compared to VEGF (low abundance) and TIMP3 (multiple bands on WB). With some bioinformatics on existing datasets, we found IGFBP5! Highly expressed, highly polarized to basal side. tinyurl.com/mvxue2vy

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·6 Ara

@SheldonRowan @RPB_org Thanks!

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Sheldon Rowan@SheldonRowan·6 Ara

@JasonMLMiller @RPB_org Congrats on the award Jason. This is extremely cool research and I can't wait to hear about your findings!

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·6 Ara

Thanks to @RPB_org [bit.ly/RPBgrant] for a career development award to study the cross-talk between mitochondria and peroxisomes in handling lipids in the RPE, and ways to harness peroxisomal capacity as a therapeutic for AMD.

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Jason Miller@JasonMLMiller·6 Eki

My social media early vote-by-mail sticker. Thought this was a cool design, all the cool local Ann Arbor attractions.

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@UMKelloggEye @_BrightFocus @DohenyEye @sfortma2 @JExpMed @SheldonRowan @RPB_org @elonmusk