About Us » FFB Funded Researchers
Lucian V. Del Priore, M.D., Ph.D.
|
Lucian V. Del Priore received his Ph.D. in Physics in August 1984 from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, after completing a thesis entitled, “The Molecular Basis of Visual Transduction in Vertebrate Rod Photoreceptors”; his M.D. with Distinction in Research from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1982; an M.S. in Physics from Cornell University in August 1977, and his B.S. summa cum laude in June 1975 (Major: Physics; Minor: Mathematics) from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY. Earlier in his academic career, Dr. Del Priore was a Lecturer in Physics at Cornell, an Instructor in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Utah, and a teaching assistant in Physics and in Physiology at Cornell prior to his first full time faculty position as an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Washington University in 1991. Dr. Del Priore was promoted to Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences with tenure at Washington University in 1998, and then joined the faculty as the Chief of Vitreoretinal Surgery, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology with tenure and Associate Professor of Neurosciences at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, from 1998-2000. In the fall of 2000 he accepted his current position as the Robert L. Burch III Scholar and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Columbia University. He was promoted to Professor at Columbia in 2006. Dr. Del Priore is a diplomat of the American Board of Ophthalmology. He is certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners, and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the American Medical Association, the International Society for Eye Research, the Retina Society, the American Society of Retina Specialists, the Macula Society, and Research to Prevent Blindness. He has served as a peer reviewer for Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Archives of Ophthalmology, American Journal of Ophthalmology, Current Eye Research, Experimental Eye Research, Ophthalmology, Journal of Neurosciences, and Retina. He is recognized nationally and internationally as an expert in submacular surgery, vitreoretinal surgery, retinal cell biology and RPE transplantation. He has made over 200 presentations at national and international meetings, and he has been invited to speak at scientific and continuing medical education courses in the United Sates and throughout the world. He has been invited as a guest speaker at the International Ophthalmic Microsurgical Study Group in Bermuda; the American Uveitis Society meeting in Chicago, Illinois; the Michaelson Symposium on Ocular Circulation and Neovascularization in Budapest, Hungary; the Platform Session on Cell Transplantation of the International Congress for Eye Research in Yokohama, Japan; the International Congress of Ophthalmology in Amsterdam; the International Congress of Eye Research in Paris; the Universita degli Studi di Ancona in Ancona Italy, and the Virginia Society of Ophthalmology. Dr. Del Priore delivered the keynote address at the Retina Society of Tokyo in Japan and recently delivered the keynote address on the role of stem cells in the management of retinal degenerations at a meeting on advances in retinal disease management in Milan, Italy. He was the annual guest lecturer and visiting professor in the Division of Cell Biology of the Institute of Ophthalmology at University College London, and has been visiting professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, the Scheie Eye Institute of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the University of Louisville, the Washington National Eye Center at Washington Hospital Center, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Cleveland Clinic, and Oakland University. Dr. Del Priore has spoken by invitation three times on advances in cell-based therapy of age-related macular degeneration at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He was a member of the retina program planning committee at ARVO for three years. He has been a moderator of ARVO sessions on RPE transplantation, submacular surgery, on the role of Bruch’s membrane in the development of age-related macular degeneration. Dr. Del Priore has been a member of the National Scientific Advisory Council of the American Federation for Aging Research, a member of the Vision C Study Section of the National Eye Institute, and a moderator of the platform session on Vitreoretinal Experimental Studies of the Retina Society. |
