Two Cullen College biomedical engineering professors, Muna Naash, John S. Dunn Endowed Professor and Muayyad Al-Ubaidi, see eye-to-eye on just about everything. Both are working to eradicate eye disease, both discovered Retbindin, a retina-specific protein, and together they have now received $1.1 million from the National Institutes of Health to explore the role of Retbindin in diseases.
But wait, there’s more. The pair of professors, hired at UH in 2015, has been married for over 40 years. They discovered each other the same way they discovered Retbindin. They weren’t looking, but there it was.