AMD Fast Track 2025

BrightFocus Foundation’s Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Fast Track workshop helps speed progress toward a cure for AMD by investing in promising young scientists in the field of vision research. Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and other early-stage scientists focused on macular degeneration research, or those who want to enter the field can take advantage of this unique opportunity to accelerate their path towards becoming an expert in this exciting field by:

• immersing themselves in the background knowledge and latest discoveries in macular degeneration research and
• connecting with preeminent macular degeneration scientists and fellow early-stage researchers in the U.S. and around the world.

• Diane Bovenkamp, PhD, BrightFocus Foundation
• Sarah Doyle, PhD
• Florian Sennlaub, MD, PhD

• Patricia Boya, PhD
  Professor, Department of Neuroscience
  University of Fribourg, Switzerland
• Diane Bovenkamp, PhD
  Vice President of Scientific Affairs
  BrightFocus Foundation
• Matthew Campbell, PhD
  Professor of Neurovascular Genetics
  Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Rui Chen, PhD
  Professor
  Gavin Herbert Eye Institute – Center for Translational Vision Research,
  University of California Irvine School of Medicine
• Usha Chakravarthy, FRCOphth, PhD, CBE
  Honorary and Emerita Professor of Ophthalmology
  Queens University of Belfast
• Patricia A. D’Amore, PhD
  Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology
  Professor of Pathology
  Vice-chair of Basic and Translational Research, Dept of Ophthalmology
  Harvard Medical School
• Tiarnan D. L. Keenan, BM BCh, PhD
  Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator, Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications
  National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
• Robert F. Mullins, PhD
  Martin Carver Chair in Ocular Cell Biology
  Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
  The University of Iowa Institute for Vision Research
• Mike (Przemyslaw) Sapieha, PhD, FCAHS
  FROUM Endowed Chair & Canada Research Chair in Retinal Cell Biology
  University of Montreal
• Ruchi Sharma, PhD
  Staff Scientist
  National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

Videos of past AMD Fast Track workshop presentations are available for the following years:

• 2023
• 2021