Scientific Review Committee
The Scientific Review Committee (SRC) meets annually to evaluate award applications. Most members are FFS alumni or mentors, and all have expertise in ophthalmology and/or vision research. The SRC is co-chaired by Curtis R. Brandt, PhD, of the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Gail Seigel, PhD, of the Univ. of Buffalo-SUNY, and Linda McLoon, PhD, of the University of Minnesota. Committee members volunteer many hours during the annual review process and are truly one of our greatest assets. We are grateful for their assistance.
If you would like to join us, please download and fax or email us a Scientific Review Committee Application.
| Anterior | |
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| Vinay K. Aakalu, MD | University of Illinois |
| Sumayya Ahmad, MD | Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
| Penny Asbell, MD | Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
| Jimmy Bartlett, OD | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| Priti Batta, MD | New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, Mount Sinai |
| Audrey Bernstein, PhD | Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai |
| Curtis Brandt, PhD (SRC co-chair) | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Eric N. Brown, MD, PhD | Vanderbilt University |
| Roy S. Chuck, MD, PhD | Montefiore Medical Center |
| Abbot Clark, PhD | UNT Health Science Center |
| Anne Coleman, MD, PhD | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Di Ding, PhD | University of Miami |
| Yiqin Du, MD, PhD | University of Pittsburgh |
| Melinda Duncan, PhD | University of Delaware |
| Erika Eggers, PhD | University of Arizona |
| Dorette Ellis, PhD | UNT Health Science Center |
| Peter Frederikse, PhD | University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ |
| Mihaela Gadjeva, PhD | Brigham and Women’s Hospital |
| Ronald Gentile, MD | New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, Mount Sinai |
| Lee Goldstein, MD, PhD | Boston University |
| Jack V. Greiner, PhD | Harvard University |
| Anne Griep, PhD | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Thomas Grippo, MD | Yale University |
| David Gritz, MD | Montefiore Medical Center |
| Pedram Hamrah, MD | Tufts University School of Medicine |
| Russell Higbee, PhD | Sanofi |
| Andrew Huang, MD, MPH | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Omer Iqbal, MD | Loyola University |
| Anna Junk, MD | Bascom Palmer Eye Institute/University of Miami Miller School of Medicine |
| Dimitrios Karamichos, PhD | University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center |
| Sanjay Kedhar, MD | New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, Mount Sinai |
| Kate Keller, PhD | Oregon Health & Science University |
|
Norman J. Kleiman, PhD (Board President) |
Columbia University |
| Ashok Kumar, PhD | Wayne State University School of Medicine |
| Kirsten Lampi, PhD | Oregon Health & Science University |
| Darren J. Lee, PhD | University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center |
| Jimmy K. Lee, MD | Yale University |
| Paloma Liton, PhD | Duke University |
| Ann-Marie Lobo, MD | Massachusetts Eye & Ear, Harvard Medical School |
| Miguel A. Materin, MD | Yale University |
| Kouros Nouri-Mahdavi, MD | ULCA |
| Sangita Patel, MD, PhD | University at Buffalo |
| Matthew Petroll, PhD | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas |
| Stephen Pflugfelder, MD | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Michelle Rhee, MD | Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai |
| Frances Rucker, PhD | New England College of Optometry |
| Kimberly Sippel, MD | NY-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Medical College of Cornell University |
| Rachel K. Sobel, MD | Vanderbilt University |
| Christopher Starr, MD | NY-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Medical College of Cornell University |
| Jody Summers, PhD | University of Oklahoma |
| Kathy K. Svoboda, PhD | Texas A&M University |
| Carol B. Toris, PhD | University of Nebraska Medical Center |
| John Ubels, PhD | Calvin College |
| J. Mario Wolosin, PhD | Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
| Albert Wu, MD | Standford University |
| Fu-Shin Yu, PhD | Wayne State University School of Medicine |
| Renping Zhou, PhD | Rutgers, The State University of NJ |
| Posterior | |
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| Anita Agarwal, MD | Vanderbilt University |
| Thomas Albini, MD | University of Miami |
| Michael Anderson, PhD | University of Iowa |
| Vadim Arshavsky, PhD | Duke Eye Institute |
| Sheila A. Baker, MD | University of Iowa |
| Sherry Ball, PhD | Case Western Reserve University |
| Guy R. Barile, MD | Columbia University |
| S. Patricia Becerra, PhD | National Eye Institute |
| Sujoy Bhattacharya, PhD | University of Tennessee Health Science Center |
| Ashay D. Bhatwadekar, PhD | Indiana University |
| Shannon E. Boye, PhD | University of Florida |
| Nicholas Brecha, PhD | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Scott Brodie, MD, PhD | Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
| Steven E. Brooks, MD | Columbia University Irving Medical Center |
| Joseph Carroll, PhD | Medical College of Wisconsin |
| R.V. Paul Chan, MD | NY-Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Medical College of Cornell University |
| Simon J. Clark, PhD | University of Manchester |
| Wesley Clay Smith, PhD | University of Florida |
| Allen Clermont, MS | Joslin Diabetes Center |
| Tiziana Cogliati, PhD | National Institutes of Health |
| Rosalie Crouch, PhD | Medical University of South Carolina |
| Patricia D’Amore, PhD | Schepens Eye Research Institute |
| Richard Dix, PhD | Georgia State University |
| Janis T. Eells , PhD | University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee |
| Patricia Fernandez Robredo, PhD | Universidad de Navarra |
| Paulo A. Ferreira, PhD | Duke University |
| Steven Fliesler, PhD | Saint Louis University |
| Patrice Fort, PhD | University of Michigan |
| Laura J. Frishman, PhD | University of Houston |
| Sabine Fuhrmann, PhD | Vanderbilt University |
| Nady Golestaneh, PhD | Georgetown University |
| Peter J. Gouras, MD | Columbia University |
| Gregory H. Grossman, PhD | Alabama Eye Bank |
| Alecia K. Gross, PhD | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| Jeffrey Gross, PhD | University of Texas at Austin |
| Meenakashi Gupta, MD | New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, Mount Sinai |
| Abigail Hackam, PhD | Bascom Palmer Eye Institute / University of Miami Miller School of Medicine |
| Kavita Hegde, MD, PhD | Coppin State University |
| John D. Hulleman, PhD | UT Southwestern Medical Center |
| Yoshikazu Imanishi, PhD | Case Western Reserve University |
| Thomas Johnson, PhD | National Eye Institute |
| Bryan Jones, PhD | University of Utah |
| Hemant Khanna, PhD | University of Massachusetts Medical School |
| Peter Koulen, PhD | University of Missouri |
| Markus Kuehn, PhD | University of Iowa |
| Edward Levine, PhD | Vanderbilt University |
| Wei Li, PhD | Bascom Palmer Eye Institute / University of Miami Miller School of Medicine |
| Phoebe Lin, MD, PhD | Oregon Health & Science University |
| Daniel M. Lipinski, Dphil | Medical College of Wisconsin |
| Stephanie Llop, MD | New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, Mount Sinai |
| Goldis Malek, PhD | Duke University |
| Tammy M. Martin, PhD | Oregon Health & Science University |
| Kirill Martemyanov, PhD | Scripps Research |
| Diana Mitchell, PhD | University of Idaho |
| Vanessa M. Morales-Tirado, PhD | University of Tennesse Health Science Center |
| Xiuqian Mu, MD, PhD | University at Buffalo |
| Robert Mullins, PhD | University of Iowa |
| Manbir Nagra, PhD | University of London |
| Judith Ogilvie, PhD, FARVO | Saint Louis University |
| Dolly Ann Padovani-Claudio, MD, PhD | Vanderbilt University |
| Iok-Hou Pang, PhD | UNT Health Science Center |
| Machelle Pardue, PhD | Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center |
| Neal Peachey, PhD | Cleveland Clinic |
| Mark Pennesi, MD, PhD | Casey Eye Institute |
| Simon Petersen-Jones, PhD | College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University |
| Yureeda Qazi, MD | Mass Eye & Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School |
| Roxana A. Radu, MD | UCLA, Jules Stein Eye Institute |
| Manas Ranjan Biswal, PhD | University of Florida |
| Tatiana Rebrik, PhD | College of Engineering, University of Iowa |
| Tonia Rex, PhD | University of Tennessee Health Science Center |
| Mark Rosenblatt, MD, PhD | NY-Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Medical College of Cornell University |
| Holly Rosenzweig, PhD | Oregon Health & Science University |
| Sayon Roy, PhD | Boston University |
| Rebecca M. Sappington, PhD | Vanderbilt Univerisity |
| Hermann Schubert, MD | Columbia University |
| Gail Seigel, PhD (SRC co-chair) | University of Buffalo-SUNY |
| Mahnaz Shahidi, PhD | University of Illinois |
| Travis Smith, PhD | Oregon Health & Science University |
| R. Theodore Smith, MD, PhD | Columbia University |
| W. Daniel Stamer, PhD | University of Arizona |
| Jena J. Steinle, PhD | Wayne State University |
| William K. Stell, MD, PhD | University of Calgary |
| Prem Subramanian, MD, PhD | University of Colorado |
| Jack M. Sullivan, MD, PhD | University of Buffalo-SUNY |
| Cynthia Toth, MD | Duke University School of Medicine |
| Elias Traboulsi, MD | Cleveland Clinic |
| Steven Tsang, MD, PhD | Columbia University |
| Matthew J. Van Hook, PhD | University of Nebraska Medical Center |
| Rohit Varma, MD, MPH | University of Southern California |
| Andrea Vincent, MD | The University of Auckland |
| Josh Wallman, PhD | City College of New York |
| Gadi Wollstein, MD | NYU Langone Eye Center |
| Jun Yang, PhD | John A. Moran Eye Center |
| Thomas Yorio, PhD | UNT Health Science Center |
| Wenbo Zhang, PhD | University of Texas Medical Branch Health |
| Xin Zhang, MD | University at Buffalo |
| Jimmy Zhou, MSc, PhD | Yale University |
| Vision & Motor Pathways | |
|---|---|
| Francisco H. Andrade, PhD | University of Kentucky |
| Sanjoy K. Bhattacharya, PhD | Bascom Palmer Eye Institute |
| Dingcai Cao, PhD | University of Illinois |
| Douglas L. Cohn, DVM | Albany Medical Center |
| Ross F. Collery, PhD | Medical College of Wisconsin |
| Aniruddha Das, PhD | Columbia University |
| Vallabh E. Das, PhD | University of Houston |
| David Feldhiem, PhD | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Jerome Fleuriet, PhD | University of Washington, Seattle |
| Alyson Fournier, PhD | McGill University |
| Fatema Ghasia, MD | Cleveland Clinic |
| Lynn Gordon, MD | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Jane Gwiazda, PhD | New England College of Optometry |
| Richard W. Hertle, MD | Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Akron |
| John R. Hetling, PhD | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Andrew Huberman, PhD | University of California, San Diego |
| Karen Joos, MD, PhD | Vanderbilt University |
| Yaping Joyce Liao, MD, PhD | Stanford University |
| Randy Kardon, MD, PhD | University of Iowa |
| Iris Kassem , MD, PhD | Medical College of Wisconsin |
| Barrett Katz, MD, MBA | Montefiore Medical Center |
| Marjean Kulp, OD, MS | Ohio State University |
| Flora Levin, MD | Yale University |
| Carol Mason, PhD | Columbia University |
| Louise Mawn, MD | Vanderbilt University |
| Linda McLoon, PhD (SRC co-chair) | University of Minnesota |
| Mashael Namaeh, OD, MS, PhD | Tusculum University |
| Jeffrey Odel, MD | Columbia University |
| Victoria S. Pelak , MD | University of Colorado |
| Vittorio Porciatti, PhD | Bascom Palmer Eye Institute / University of Miami Miller School of Medicine |
| Alfredo A. Sadun, MD, PhD | University of Southern California |
| Daniel J. Salchow, MD | Yale University |
| Duje Tadin, PhD | University of Rochester |
| James C. Tsai, MD | Yale University |
| Lin Wang, MD, PhD | Legacy Devers Eye Institute |
| Wen-jeng Melissa Yao, MD | Montefiore Medical Center |
| Qasim Zaidi, PhD | State University of New York (SUNY) College of Optometry |
| Gulab Zode, PhD | UNT Health Science Center |