Darlene A. Dartt
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Senior Scientist, Director of Scientific Affairs, & Harold F. Johnson Research Scholar Schepens Eye Research Institute
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Darlene A. Dartt received her PhD in Physiology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. She was a postdoctoral fellow in Medical Physiology at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and later in Physiology at Tufts University School of Medicine, where she became a Research Assistant Professor. In 1985 she moved to the Schepens Eye Research Institute, where she started as an Assistant Scientist and Assistant Professor in the Harvard Department of Ophthalmology. In 1992, she was promoted to Senior Scientist at the Institute and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology. She is currently the Director of Scientific Affairs at the Institute and heads the research program for the Institute’s congressional appropriation. Her research focuses on how tears are produced by the lacrimal gland and the mucin-secreting goblet cells of the conjunctiva [see diagram] under normal conditions and in animal models of dry eye syndrome. To read more about Dr. Dartt, please click here.
Education
Ph.D.1978, University of Pennsylvania
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