Napoleone Ferrara, MD, kicks off 2024-25 Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series

The 2024-25 UCI School of Medicine Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series kicked off Sept. 17-18 with Napoleone Ferrara, MD, Distinguished Professor of Pathology, Ophthalmology and Pharmacology, and the Ben and Wanda Hildyard Endowed Chair for Diseases of the Eye, UC San Diego School of Medicine. The series began with a community lecture on Sept. 17 at UCI Applied Innovation, where Ferrara delivered a talk on "Preventing Vision Loss due to Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Progress and Challenges." The following day, Ferrara presented his scientific lecture titled "New Insights in the Regulation of Ocular Angiogenesis: Therapeutic Implications" at the UCI Medical Center, which was livestreamed to the UCI Gavin Herbert Eye Institute.

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The annual Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series brings together influential leaders from healthcare and academia to share their insights, knowledge, experience and anecdotal stories with our faculty, staff, students and community members. The next speaker in the series will be Nancy Carrasco, MD, Joe C. Davis Professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences.