Patricia D'Amore
Patricia Ann D'Amore is an American scientist and professor at Harvard Medical School. She holds the Charles L. Schepens Professorship of Ophthalmology and is also a Professor of Pathology. She grew up in Everett, Massachusetts, and went to Matignon High School in Cambridge. She earned a BA from Regis College in 1973, a PhD in biology from Boston University in 1977, and an MBA from Northeastern University in 1987. She also completed a program at Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation in 2011.
Her research focuses on eye diseases, especially how blood vessels grow (angiogenesis) and how lipids and inflammation contribute to age-related macular degeneration (AMD). She helped show that VEGF drives the rapid progression of wet AMD, which led to anti-VEGF therapies used to slow the disease.
Patricia D'Amore's career includes postdoctoral work at Johns Hopkins and positions at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She became an assistant professor in 1980, an associate professor in 1989, and a full professor in 1998. In 2012 she became the Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology, and in 2013 a Professor of Pathology. Since 2014 she has directed the Howe Laboratory at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and served as Associate Chief of Basic and Translational Research there.
Her group has published more than 150 original papers, with four papers cited more than 1,000 times. She founded the Boston Angiogenesis Meeting in 1998. She is Editor-in-Chief of Microvascular Research and has served as an associate editor of The American Journal of Pathology and on the editorial boards of FASEB Journal.
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