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Albert Edwards, M.D., Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Edwards joined Mayo Clinic in 2006 from the Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. He was Scientist and President of the Institute for Retina Research, Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas, Texas. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Baylor College of Medicine. He did his ophthalmology residency at the University of Illinois, Chicago. At the Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University he did a Fellowship in Vitreoretinal Surgeryand also a Heed Fellowship in Ophthalmic Genetics, Medical Retina, and Uveitis Dr. Edwards has a busy clinical practice in macular disease and retina and vitreous surgery. His research has been funded by the National Eye Institute. In addition to NEI support he has received support from Foundation Fighting Blindness, American Health Assistance Foundation, and also has received some industry support. He has one patent, DNA typing with short tandem repeat polymorphisms and identification of polymorphic short tandem repeats He has published in the scientific literature, having written over 59 articles and chapters. Significant past achievements include: 1) Discovered the technology underlying modern DNA fingerprinting or typing (1989); 2) developed key strategies ultimately used in the (“random”) sequencing of the human genome (1991); 3) refined the localization and/or cloned the genes for malattia leventineses, dominant Stargardt-like macular dystrophy, and AM.D. (ARM.D.1); 4) discovered the association between AM.D. and complement factor H; and 5) cloned the gene for Snowflake vitreoretinal degeneration. |
