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Macular Degeneration Foundation, Inc. - Eyesight Vision Disease Retina Research
Description
Dr. D'Amato is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Karp Center for Macular Degeneration Research at Boston Childrens Hospital
He obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School where he was the recipient of the coveted Paul Ehrlich Award for Research Excellence and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Physician Research Fellowship. He heads up the Nation's leading research laboratory in wet macular degeneration situated in the Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
One of his principal interests is discovering the underlying biological cause of dry macular degeneration, the form the affects his own father and 90% of those afflicted with this disease.
Contact
- MacularDegenerationFoundation, Inc.
- San Jose CA
- United States 95157-9752
- +1.40826013