Scientific Committee
The purpose of the Macula & Genoma Foundation is to bring together experts from different subspecialties in Ophthalmology, all animated by the common desire of preventing and reversing blindness. The Scientific Committee of the Macula & Genoma Foundation can count on the expertise of some of the most renown and qualified scientists in the field, with the aim to facilitate and accelerate as much as possible the application of a model of “translational medicine” in Ophthalmology. The Scientific Committee supports the Macula & Genoma Foundation in identifying original, groundbreaking projects of research that have the potential to be translated into pioneering clinical research with aims that are in line with the Foundation’s primary mission of “reversing blindness”.
Radha Ayyagari
Professor of Ophtalmology and Pathology Viterbi Family Endowed Chair Director, Shiley Eye Institute, San Diego, USA
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University of California, San Diego, USA
Benedetto Falsini
Associate Professor at the Institute of Ophthalmology Università Cattolica S. Cuore, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Rome, Italy
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Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli, Rome, Italy
Napoleone Ferrara
Professor of Ophthalmology and Pathology Senior Deputy Director for Basic Sciences, UCSD Moores Cancer Center Ben, Wanda Hildyard Chair for Diseases of the Eye
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University of California, San Diego, USA
Emiliano Giardina
Director of Laboratory Medicine and Genomics (UILDM), Santa Lucia Foundation, the University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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Fondazione Santa lucia, Rome, Italy
Aniz Girach
Chief Medical Officer of ProQR Therapeutics, Leiden, Netherlands
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ProQR Therapeutics, Leiden, Netherlands
Michael Gorin
Chief of The Retinal Disorder and Opthalmic Genetics Division at the David Geffen School of Medicine UCLA and Jules Stein Eye Institute Los Angeles.
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Jules Stein Eye Institute Los Angeles, USA
Chunhui Jiang
Vice Director of the Ophthalmology Department of Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Henry Klassen
Professor and Director, Stem Cell & Retinal Regeneration Program, Ophthalmology School of Medicine UC Irvine, USA
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UCI, Irvine, California, USA
Richard Kramer
CH and Annie Li Chair in Molecular Biology of Diseases and Professor of Neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Berkeley University of California, USA
Yossi Mandel
Associate Professor at Bar-Ilan University. Head, Ophthalmic Science and Engineering Lab, Israel
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Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel
John Marshall
Frost Professor of Ophthalmology, Institute of Ophthalmology, London
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Moorfields Eye Hospital and University College, London, UK
Mahi Muqit
Vitreo-retinal Consultant, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
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Moorfields Eye Hospital and University College, London, UK
Daniel Palanker
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University
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Stanford University, California, USA
Serge Picaud
INERM, Institut National de la Santè et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris
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Institut National de la Santé et de la Rècherche Médicale, Paris, France
Paul Sieving
Former Director National Eye Institute, priorly Founding Director Center for Retinal and Macular Degeneration at the Department of Ophthalmology and visual science.
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UC Davis, Sacramento, California, USA
Jiayi Zhang
Vice Director of State Key Laboratory for Neurobiology, Assistant Dean of Institute of Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Marco A. Zarbin
Professor of Ophthalmology and Neuroscience at NJMS Director Ophthalmology Department University, New Jersey, USA
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