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. Dr. Redmond received his PhD degree in 1983 from University College, Dublin (Ireland) with graduate training at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina….
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. He served as Chief…
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. Jacobson earned BA and MD degrees from the University of Illinois,…
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. There she has run a true bench-to-bedside translational research program and, in the process, has trained hundreds of physician-scientists, many…
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. His lab focuses on model identification, disease gene discovery, establishing disease metrics and defining molecular pathways linking the gene and mutation to the disease. Since…
José Cunha-Vaz, M.D., Ph.D. is Emeritus Professor of Ophthalmology of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and President of the Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image (AIBILI), a not-for-profit Clinical Research Organization. He is now Honorary Editor of Ophthalmic Research, Coordinator of the Diabetic Retinopathy and Retinal Vascular Diseases Section of the…
Edwin M. Stone is a Professor of Ophthalmology and the Director of the University of Iowa Institute for Vision Research. He is best known for his work in defining the genetic basis of blinding eye diseases: ranging from two of the most common causes of blindness, macular degeneration and glaucoma, to much rarer conditions like…
Val C. Sheffield is Professor of Pediatrics and Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. He is known for the development of methods and improved approaches to facilitate human genetic disease gene identification. This work includes major contributions to the completion of a high resolution polymorphic genetic map of…
David H. Abramson is Chief, Ophthalmic Oncology Service Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Professor of Ophthalmology Weill Cornell Medical School, New York, New York. Over my 50-year career as a clinician scientist focusing on ophthalmic oncology, I have contributed fundamental insights to the understanding of intra- and periocular tumors, particularly retinoblastoma, and led highly influential…