2008-09 Distinguished Lecture Series Archive
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
To read more about Dr. Peck, click here .
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
