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The Bascom Palmer Eye Institute 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.