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Research into Age-related Macular Degeneration

Grantee Profiles and Publications

© 2025 American Macular Degeneration Foundation

Saghar Bagheri, MD, PhD, Research Fellow in Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

Michael Berry II, PhD, Associate Professor, Molecular Biology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute Co-Director, Program in Neuroscience, Princeton University (and CEO of Optimal Acuity Corp.)

Shun-Yun Cheng, PhD student 
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Kip Connor, PhD, (previously at) Harvard Medical School, where he wasAssociate Professor of Ophthalmology

Sabine Fuhrmann, PhD, Associate Professor, Ophthalmology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee

Neena Haider, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

Matthew Hunt, University of Washington, Seattle
Mentor:
Aaron Lee, MD, MSc

Aparna Lakkaraju, PhD, Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine

Jason Miller, MD, PhD, University of Michigan
Mentor: Debra Thompson, PhD

Kelly Mulfaul, PhD, University of Iowa
Mentor:
Robert Mullins, PhD 

Johanna Seddon, MD, ScM, Director of Retina, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science & Director of the Macular Degeneration Center of Excellence, University of Massachusetts Medical School 

Bonnielin Swenor, PhD, MPH, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Demetrios Vavvas, MD, PhD, Co-Director of the Ocular Regenerative Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School