Optogon Medical

Chapter 14

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About Us
Macular Degeneration
Foundation
 

Board of Scientific Advisors

Stuart L. Fine  M.D.

Chairman, Professor of Ophthalmology, and Director of the Scheie Eye Institute,
The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia

Abbreviated Biography

Robert J. D'Amato  M.D.  Ph.D.

Dr. D'Amato is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Karp Center for Macular Degeneration Research at Boston Childrens Hospital

He obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School where he was the recipient of the coveted Paul Ehrlich Award for Research Excellence and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Physician Research Fellowship. He heads up the Nation's leading research laboratory in wet macular degeneration situated in the Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

One of his principal interests is discovering the underlying biological cause of dry macular degeneration, the form the affects his own father and 90% of those afflicted with this disease.

Philip Filner,  Ph.D.

Philip Filner, PhD., is Director of Basic Science Research for the Foundation. A graduate of John Hopkins University (B.A. in Biophysics) and CalTech (Ph. D. in Biochemsitry), Dr. Filner was on the faculty of the Department of Biochemistry at Michigan State University from 1965 - 1981, as full Professor from 1973.

 The author of 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers, Dr. Filner then entered industry where he developed and managed scientific research programs as Associate Director for ARCO Plant Cell Research Lab in Dublin, California. He then became Director of Molecular Biology for Sungene Technologies in San Jose. He subsequently led proof-of-concept efforts applying DNA amplification techniques to solving problems of commercial animal and plant breeding as Vice President for Research & Development of Correlation Genetics. He also developed tests for human infectious diseases as scientist for Roche Molecular Systems in Alameda, California and led part of a large team of bio-scientists and engineers in the development of an instrument and technology to automate tests for tuberculosis based on DNA amplification for Becton Dickinson in Sparks, Maryland. Dr. Filner's professional service responsibilities include work on the Grant, Program Review, or Advisory Committees of the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Agriculture, the Department of Energy and the National Aeronautics and Space Agency. He has additionally served on the Editorial Board of four scientific journals.

Ron Gallemore  M.D.  Ph.D.

Dr. Gallemore is an internationally recognized clinician scientist and surgeon. After attending the University of California, Irvine, where he majored in Biology, he completed his medical degree and doctorate in Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco.

Thereafter, he attended residency at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA, followed by the prestigious retina fellowship at Duke University.  He has held academic positions at both Duke University and UCLA. His research has focused on the retinal pigment epithelium- a key player in macular degeneration. Dr. Gallemore is a member of the nationally recognized Retina-Vitreous Associates Medical Group in Southern California maintaining five offices in Los Angeles with major emphasis in research.

Administrators

Edmund J. Aleksandrovich - President
Dr. David Seftel - Director of Research Development
Donations