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Board of Scientific Counselors Permanent Members

Rajendra Apte, M.D., Ph.D.
Paul A. Cibis Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor, Developmental Biology and Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine

Catherine Bowes Rickman, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Ophthalmology and Cell Biology
Duke University Medical Center

Johnathan Demb, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Physiology and Neuroscience
Yale University

Roozbeh Kiani, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Neural Science and Psychology
Center for Neural Science
New York University

Aparna Lakkaraju, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Ophthalmology
University of California, San Francisco

Last updated: August 6, 2021