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The Bascom Palmer Eye Institute has been awarded the Streilein Foundation
for Ocular Immunology Visiting Professorship to sponsor a visit and seminar by
Chi-Chao Chan, M.D., senior scientist and chief of the immunopathology
section at the National Eye Institute, on March 7, 2013. Dr. Chan, a world
expert in intraocular lymphoma, immunopathology of uveitis and molecular
pathology of age-related macular degeneration, has made seminal contributions
to the fields of Immunology and Ophthalmology.
The Streilein
Foundation
for
Ocular
Immunology's
Visiting
Professorship supports Dr. Chan's visit as speaker for Bascom Palmer Eye
Institute's annual Frontiers in Vision Research seminar series. Her presentation
will be The Inflammatory Components in Age-Related Macular Degeneration.
Bascom Palmer’s Wen-Hsiang Lee, M.D., Ph.D., and Janet L. Davis, M.D.,
M.A., are co-hosts for Dr. Chan. This visiting professorship is named in honor
of J. Wayne Streilein, M.D., often referred to as the father of modern ocular
immunology. Streilein, was the President and Director of Research at
the Schepens Eye Research Institute at the Harvard Medical School, and a
former chairman of the University of Miami's Miller School's Department of
Microbiology and Immunology.