Jeff Mumm PhD

Helen Larson & Charles Glenn Grover Associate Professor in Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute Associate Professor in Ophthalmology




  • Emmerich K, Hageter J, Hoang T, Lyu P, Sharrock AV, Ceisel A, Thierer J, Chunawala Z, Nimmagadda S, Palazzo I, Matthews F, Zhang L, White DT, Rodriquez C, Graziano G, Marcos P, May A, Mulligan T, Reibman B, Saxena MT, Ackerley DF, Qian J, Blackshaw S, Horstick E, Mumm JS. A large-scale CRISPR screen reveals context-specific genetic regulation of retinal ganglion cell regeneration. Development 2024, 151:dev202754. doi: 10.1242/dev.202754.
  • Emmerich K, Walker SL, Wang G, White DT, Wang F, Teng Y, Ceisel A, Chunawala Z, Graziano G, Nimmagadda S, Saxena MT, Qian J, Mumm JS. Transcriptomic comparison of two selective retinal cell ablation paradigms in zebrafish reveals shared and cell-specific regenerative responses. PLoS Genet. 2023;19:e1010905. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010905.
  • Emmerich K, White DT, Kambhampati SP, Casado GL, Fu T-M, Chunawala Z, Sahoo A, Nimmagadda S, Krishnan N, Saxena MT, Walker SL, Betzig E, Kannan RM, Mumm JS. Nanoparticle-based targeting of microglia improves the regeneration enhancing effects of immunosuppression in the zebrafish retina. Communications Biology, 2023; 6:534. doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-04898-9.
  • Sharrock AV#, Mulligan TS#, Hall KR, Williams EM, White DT, Zhang L, Emmerich K, Matthews F, Nimmagadda S, Washington S, Le KD, Meir-Levi D, Cox OL, Saxena MT, Calof AL, Lopez-Burks ME, Lander AD, Ding D, Ji H, Ackerley DF*, Mumm JS*. NTR 2.0: a rationally-engineered prodrug converting enzyme with substantially enhanced efficacy for targeted cell ablation. Nature Methods, 2022; 19:205-215; # co-first authors, *co-corresponding authors. doi: 10.1038/s41592-021-01364-4.
  • Zhang L, Chen C, Fu J, Lilley B, Berlinicke C, Hansen B, Ding D, Wang G, Wang T, Shou D, Ye Y, Mulligan T, Emmerich K, Saxena MT, Hall KR, Sharrock AV, Brandon C, Park H, Kam T-I, Dawson VL, Dawson TM, Shim JS, Hanes J,  Ji H, Liu JO, Qian J, Ackerley DF, Rohrer B, Zack DJ, Mumm JS. Large-scale Phenotypic Drug Screen Identifies Neuroprotectants in Zebrafish and Mouse Models of Retinitis Pigmentosa. eLife, 2021; 10:e57245. doi: 10.7554/eLife.57245.
  • White DT, Sengupta S, Saxena MT, Xu Q, Hanes J, Ding D, Ji H, Mumm JS.  Immunomodulation-accelerated neuronal regeneration following selective rod photoreceptor cell ablation in the zebrafish retina. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2017; 114:E3719–E3728. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1617721114.
  • White DT#, Eroglu AU#, Wang G#, Zhang L, Sengupta S, Ding D, Rajpurohit SK, Walker SL, Ji H, Qian J, Mumm JS.  ARQiv-HTS, a versatile whole-organism screening platform enabling in vivo drug discovery at high-throughput rates. Nature Protocols, 2016, 11:2432–2453; #co-first authors. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2016.142.