Anders Bill, M.D., Ph.D. was born in Falun, Sweden, 1931, went to school at Hudiksvall and studied Medicine at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. After some work at the Department of Anatomy, some clinical work in Surgery and a thesis in Physiology, he joined the Department of Pharmacology in 1962 and then returned as full Professor…
David Maurice, Ph.D. died on July 20, 2002, at 80 years of age. He was one of the most influential ocular physiologists of the 20th century. After a physics degree from the University of Reading and a short tenure at a telecommunication laboratory of the Royal Air Force, he joined the group of Sir Stewart…
Alan Bird, M.D. was born in London, United Kingdom, in 1938. He received his medical degree from Guys Hospital, University of London, and trained in both neurology and neurosurgery before his ophthalmic residency at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He had a one-year fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida with Dr Lawton…
Alfred Sommer, M.D., M.H.S. is Dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Professor of Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, and International Health. Sommer received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School (1967) and his Master of Health Science in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (1973). Sommer’s research interests include outcomes assessment;…
Judah Folkman, MD, is the founder of the field of angiogenesis research. He has made seminal discoveries on the mechanism of angiogenesis which have opened a field of investigation now pursued worldwide. Dr. Folkman’s hypothesis (1971) that solid tumors are angiogenesis-dependent initiated studies of angiogenesis in tumor biology and in disciplines as diverse as developmental…
Dr. Elke Lütjen-Drecoll received the M.D. degree from the University of Marburg, Germany, in 1969. She was trained in internal medicine and surgery before she was appointed to the Department of Anatomy, headed by Dr. Johannes Rohen. Still being a student, she had the opportunity to join the collaborative work of Dr. Rohen and Dr….
Dr. Rohen received the M.D. degree from the University of Tübingen, Germany in 1946. He became Head of the Department of Anatomy in Marburg, Germany in 1964 and in Erlangen, Germany in 1974. His main scientific interest has always been the functional morphology of tissues of the anterior segment of the eye, the eyelid apparatus, and…
Dr. Joram Piatigorsky received a Ph.D. degree in developmental biology and chemistry in 1967 from California Institute of Technology. His postdoctoral studies with Dr. Alfred J. Coulombre at the National Institutes of Health on lens and crystallins introduced him to vision research. He remained at NIH where he is Chief of the NEI’s Laboratory of…
Professor Hugh Taylor has been actively involved in ophthalmic research and teaching for over thirty years. In 2008, the Harold Mitchell Chair of Indigenous Eye Health was established for him in the Melbourne School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne. Prior to this, he was the Professor of Ophthalmology and Head of Department…