Our collaborators

The Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute:

James Tahara Handa, MD
Chief, Retina Division
Professor of Ophthalmology

Jiang Qian, MS, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor of Oncology

Donald J. Zack,
MD, PhD
Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Stem Cells and Ocular Regenerative Medicine (STORM)
Professor of Ophthalmology
External collaborators:

University of Pittsburgh:

Simon C. Watkins, PhD
The Founder and Director of the Center for Biologic Imaging at the University of Pittsburgh
Distinguished Professor
Vice Chairman in the Department of Cell Biology.

Toren Finkel, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology,
Director of the Aging Institute University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Dhivyaa Rajasundaram, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Core Lead, Bioinformatics Core at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Other collaborators:

Arkasubhra Ghosh, M.Sc., PhD
Head of Department,
GROW Research Laboratory, Molecular Signalling and Gene therapy,
Narayana Nethralaya Foundation, Narayana Health City, Bangalore, India
Adjunct Research Scientist, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore

Deborah Ferrington, PhD
Doheny Eye Institute
Chief Scientific Officer

Ashwath Jayagopal, PhD, MBA
Opus Genetics
Chief Scientific and Development Officer

Kai Kaarniranta, PhD
University of Eastern Finland
Chief Physician and Professor of Ophthalmology
(University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital)
Chief Editor of Acta Ophthalmologica
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Raju V.S. Rajala, PhD
M.G. McCool Chair in Ophthalmology
Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor
Professor of Physiology
Adjunct Professor of Cell Biology
Mentoring Faculty at Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience
Member, Harold Hamm Diabetes Center

Yuri Sergeev, PhD
National Eye Institute
Head of Protein Biochemistry & Molecular Modeling Group

Caroline Lewis, PhD
Whitehead Institute
Director, Metabolite Profiling Facility