The lecture series is a forum for today's foremost scientists to present their current research to the scientific community. 

September 18, 2008

Blood, Spit & Tears as presented by Sjögren's Syndrone, Plus Microarray Phishing for Molecular Answers

Ammon Peck, Ph.D.

Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL

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October 10, 2008

Implementing Translational Medicine in an Age of Failing Drug Companies

Martin Wax, M.D.

Vice President, Research and Development and Head of Ophthalmology Discovery Research, Alcon Laboratories, Fort Worth, Texas

Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas.

November 13, 2008

Receptor-regulated Calcium Influx Channels

James Putney, Jr., Ph.D.

Research Triangle Park, NC 

December 11, 2008

Eric Pearlman, Ph.D.

Professor and Director of Research, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Case Western University, Cleveland, OH

January 8, 2009

Probing the Role of RPE Lipofuscin in Macular Degeneration

Janet Sparrow, Ph.D.

Anthony Donn Professor of Ophthalmic Science in, Ophthalmology and Pathology & Cell Biology, Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University

March 26, 2009

Molecular Genetics of Macular Degeneration

Kang Zhang, MD, PhD

Professor of Ophthalmology and Human Genetics
University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, and
VASDHS Center for Human Genetics and Genomics

April 16, 2009

Biologicals for the Treatment of Uveitis

Pr Manfred Zierhut, M.D.

Director of Deutschen Uveitis Arbeitsgemeinschaft, Department of Ophthalmology
University of Tubingen

May 21, 2009

Genetic control of corneal and choroidal neovascularization

Robert D’Amato, MD, PhD

Chair in Surgical Research, Director, Center for Macular Degeneration Research, Childrens Hospital Boston
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

June 25, 2009

AMD and the other double helix

Jayakrishna Ambati, M.D.

Professor of Physiology and Professor & Vice-Chair of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Services, University of Kentucky College of Medicine