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2023 Helen Keller Laureate

Gustavo D Aguirre, VMD, Ph.D., PhDhc

Gustavo D. Aguirre is Professor of Medical Genetics and Ophthalmology at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and works with dog models of inherited eye and retinal degeneration. Click here to read more

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2023 Helen Keller Laureate

Jean Bennett, MD, Ph.D.

Dr. Jean Bennett was recruited to the Scheie Eye Institute at University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine in 1992 where she has spent the past three decades developing gene-based strategies for treating inherited retinal degenerations. Click here to read more

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2023 Helen Keller Laureate

Samuel G. Jacobson, MD, Ph.D.

Dr. Samuel Jacobson, William C. Frayer Professor of Ophthalmology, was the founder and director of the Center for Hereditary Retinal Degenerations at the University of Pennsylvania Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine. He passed away in January 2023, at the age of 78. Click here to read more

 

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2023 Helen Keller Laureate

Albert M. Maguire, MD

Dr. Albert Maguire graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Psychology from Princeton University. He received his MD degree from Harvard Medical School and completed an internship in Surgery at Yale University School of Medicine and a Residency in Ophthalmology at the Wilmer Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Click here to read more

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2023 Helen Keller Laureate

T. Michael Redmond, Ph.D.

Dr. T. Michael Redmond is Chief of the Laboratory of Retinal Cell & Molecular Biology, National Eye Institute, NIH, where he is also Head of the Molecular Mechanisms Section. Click here to read more

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