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Scientific Advisory Board

Chairman - Vice Chairs - Members - Ex-Officio Members

Chairman

Eric A. Pierce, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Director, Berman-Gund Laboratory
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

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Vice Chairs

Stephen P. Daiger, Ph.D.
TS Matney Professor of Environmental & Genetic Sciences
Human Genetics Center
University of Texas Health Science Center
Houston, TX
John Flannery, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Alan M. Laties, M.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology in Neurology
Department of Ophthalmology
University of Pennsylvania Medical School
Philadelphia, PA
Richard G. Weleber, M.D.
Department of Molecular & Medical Genetics
Oregon Health Sciences University
Portland, OR
Marco Zarbin, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
University of Medicine & Dentistry
New Jersey Medical School
Newark, NJ

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Members

Gustavo Aguirre, VMD, PhD, PhD (hc)
Professor of Medical Genetics and Ophthalmology
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Robert E. Anderson, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Ophthalmology
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Oklahoma City, OK
John D. Ash, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gainesville, FL
Isabelle Audo, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Centre Hospitalier National des Quinze and department of Genetics
Institut de la Vision
Paris, France
Radha Ayyagari, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Ophthalmology
Shiley Eye Center
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
Jean Bennett, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, F.M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology
Scheie Eye Institute
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA
Paul S. Bernstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Moran Eye Center, University of Utah
65 Mario Capecchi Drive
Salt Lake City, Utah
Eliot L. Berson, M.D.
Director, Berman-Gund Laboratory
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
David G. Birch, Ph.D.
Director, Rose-Silverthorne Retinal Degenerations Laboratory
Retina Foundation of the Southwest
Dallas, TX
Dean Bok, Ph.D.
Director, Retinal Cell Biology Laboratory
Jules Stein Eye Institute
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Catherine Bowes Rickman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
Eugene de Juan, Jr., M.D.
Jean Kelly Stock Distinguished Professor
Beckman Vision Center
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Lucian V. Del Priore, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC
John E. Dowling, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology
The Biological Laboratories
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Jacque Duncan, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Beckman Vision Center
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Debora Farber, Ph.D.
Karl Kirchgessner Professor, Ophthalmology
Jules Stein Eye Institute
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Gerald A. Fishman, M.D.
Director, The Pangere Center for Hereditary Retinal Diseases
The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who are Blind or Visually Impaired
Chicago, IL
Morton F. Goldberg, M.D.
Joseph E. Green Professor of Ophthalmology
Wilmer Eye Institute 
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
Gregory S. Hageman, Ph.D.
Presidential Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
John A. Moran Eye Center
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
William W. Hauswirth, Ph.D.
Rybaczki-Bullard Professor of Ophthalmology and Molecular Genetics
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gainesville, FL
Elise Héon, M.D., F.R.C.S.(c)
Ophthalmologist-in-Chief, Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences
The Hospital for Sick Children
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Joe G. Hollyfield, Ph.D.
Director, Department of Ophthalmic Research
Cole Eye Institute
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH
Leslie G. Hyman, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine
Stony Brook University Medical Center
Stony Brook, NY
Alessandro Iannaccone, M.D., M.S.
Director, Retinal Degeneration & Ophthalmic Genetics Service
University of Tennessee Health Center
Hamilton Eye Institute
Memphis, TN
Samuel G. Jacobson, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Center for Hereditary Retinal Degenerations and Retinal Function Department Scheie Eye Institute
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
William J. Kimberling, Ph.D.
Director, Center for the Study and Treatment of Usher Syndrome
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
Boys Town National Research Hospital
Omaha, NE
Matthew M. LaVail, Ph.D.
Professor of Anatomy and Ophthalmology
Beckman Vision Center
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Vincent H. L. Lee, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
School of Pharmacy
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
Tiansen Li, Ph.D.
National Eye Institute
Neurobiology-Neurodegeneration and Repair Laboratory
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
Roderick R. McInnes, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Lady Davis Institute
Jewish General Hospital
Montréal Quebec, Canada
Jeremy Nathans, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Gary D. Novack, Ph.D.
President
PharmaLogic Development, Inc.
San Rafael, CA
Thomas Reh, Ph.D.
Director, Neurobiology and Behavior
Department of Biological Structure
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
José A. Sahel, M.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology
Fondation Voir et Entendre
Institut de la Vision
Paris, France
Johanna M. Seddon, M.D., Sc.M.
Director, Ophthalmic Epidemiology and Genetics Service
New England Eye Center
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA
Edwin Stone, M.D., Ph.D.
Seamans-Hauser Chair in Molecular Ophthalmology
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
Iowa City, IA
Douglas Vollrath, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Genetics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA
Andreas Wenzel, Ph.D.
Medical Affairs Manager
Novartis Pharma
Bern, Switzerland
David S. Williams, Ph.D.
Director, Jules Stein Eye Institute
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA
Michael J. Young, Ph.D.
de Gunzburg Director, Minda de Gunzburg Research Center for Ocular Regeneration
Schepens Eye Research Institute
Department of Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Donald J. Zack, M.D., Ph.D.
Guerrieri Professor of Genetic Engineering & Molecular Ophthalmology
Wilmer Eye Institute
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

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