Dr. Schreiber is the Scientific Advisor for the American Macular Degeneration Foundation. As Chairman of the AMDF Grant Funding Committee, he has established a group of scientists to act as Peer Reviewers. Leading researchers from across the United States have joined with the American Macular Degeneration Foundation to fight macular degeneration.

After receiving his B.S. degree from City College of New York, Sidney S. Schreiber served in the United States Army with the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II from 1942 to 1945. He fought in both the African theater and in France on D-Day. Following the war, he completed his Master of Science Degree at New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In 1949, he was graduated from the New York University School of Medicine with honors and was first in his class.

In a college honors research program, he studied the regeneration of the frog optic nerve and retina after section. In medical school he initiated his research activities with studies of chemical inhibition of tissue growth. From 1952 to 1956, Dr. Schreiber worked with Nobel laureates Dr. Solomon Berson and Dr. Rosalind Yalow on the movement of potassium in heart muscle. After entering part-time medical practice, he continued his research activities in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the Veterans Administration Hospital in New York City. In 1960, he was appointed to the Faculty of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine as Professor of Clinical Medicine.

His research during this period was concerned with in-vitro studies of the effects of stress and the effects of alcohol on cardiac protein. The National Institutes of Health and the Veterans Administration supported his research into hypertension and other areas for more than 30 years. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific publications and has been a presenter at more than 50 international scientific conferences.

Dr. Schreiber developed macular degeneration in 1995. In 1998 he was declared legally blind. Since that time he has learned to cope with the effects of blindness: using a cane; a talking watch; hand-held magnifiers; and increasing the font size on his computer. He has refused to give up his hobbies of gardening and painting.