Our collaborators
University of Pittsburgh:
José-Alain Sahel, MD
Distinguished Professor and Chairman,
Department of Ophthalmology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Exceptional Class Professor at Sorbonne Université, Paris
The Eye and Ear Foundation Endowed Chair
Medical Retina Service
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.
Leah Byrne, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Corrine Kliment, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Member of the Cellular and Molecular Pathology Graduate Training Program.
Dhivyaa Rajasundaram, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Core Lead, Bioinformatics Core at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
External collaborations:
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
Melinda Duncan, PhD
University of Delaware
Professor, Biological Sciences
Editorial board member, Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Director, Education and Professional Development Core, Delaware IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE)
Associate Director, Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) in Discovery of Chemical Probes and Therapeutic Leads
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
Ocuphire Pharma
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