Loris and David Rich Lecture Series in Visual Science
 
 
September 24, 2008 "Social support resources and adaptation to age-related vision loss"

Joann P. Reinhardt , Ph.D.
Associate Director of Research
Jewish Home & Hospital Lifecare System
New York, New York

 
November 12, 2008 "Disease mechanism and therapies: studies in mouse models of photoreceptor degeneration" Tiansen Li, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Boston, Massachusetts
 
December 10, 2008 “Is RPE lipofuscin a player in age-related macular degeneration? ” François C. Delori, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Associate Professor
Vision and Visual Optics
Schepens Eye Research Institute
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
 
January 21, 2009 “Retinal gene therapy: targeting cells, restoring function, preserving structure”

Gustavo Aguirre, V.M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Section on Clinical Studies
Department of Ophthalmology
University of Pennsylvania
School of Veterinary Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 
March 25, 2009 “Binolcular integration of visual function in the human brain”

Jonathan C. Horton M.D., Ph.D.
William F. Hoyt Professor of
Neuro-Ophthalmology
Beckman Vision Center, UCSF
San Francisco, California

 

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