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Dr. Cideciyan received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from University of Miami, Florida. He joined the University of Miami faculty as a Research Assistant Professor in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering. In 1995, he was recruited to the University of Pennsylvania where he is now a Research Associate Professor of Ophthalmology. He is also a member of the Graduate Group for Bioengineering at Penn. Dr. Cideciyan’s research interests include understanding disease mechanisms in human hereditary retinal degenerations and evaluation of the outcomes of experimental treatments. He is also involved in examination of animal models, comparison of their phenotype to the human patients, and evaluation of pre-clinical therapeutic strategies in animal models. Dr. Cideciyan’s expertise involves use of engineering principles together with understanding of visual physiology to design tests, build new equipment or perform new analyses. Research methods of his laboratory include imaging, electrophysiology and psychophysics as well as mathematical modeling and software development. Dr. Cideciyan’s work has been supported by the National Eye Institute, Foundation Fighting Blindness, Research to Prevent Blindness and The Whitaker Foundation. Dr. Cideciyan has authored more than 90 refereed research articles and has served as Ad Hoc member of the BDPE-VISC review panel of National Eye Institute as well as other review panels by the National Science Foundation and US Civilian Research & Development Foundation. He has received the Eberhard Dodt Memorial Award from International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision, and the William & Mary Greve Scholar Award from Research to Prevent Blindness. |
