Edwin M. Stone, MD, PhD

Specialty: Medical Retina and Heritable Retina Diseases

Professor of Ophthalmology
Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
Seamans-Hauser Chair in Molecular Ophthalmology

Campus Address

11196-I PFP
(319) 335-8270

Education

• BA (Biology and English), Rice University
• PhD (Cell Biology), Baylor College of Medicine
• MD, Baylor College of Medicine

Post Graduate Education

• Internship (Transitional), St Joseph Hospital, Houston
• Residency (Ophthalmology), University of Iowa
• Fellowship (Ophthalmology Research), University of Iowa
• Fellowship (Vitreoretinal Surgery), University of Iowa

Certification

• American Board of Ophthalmology

Professional Affiliations

• American Medical Association
• Association for Research in Vision and Ophthamology
• American Society of Human Genetics
• American Academy of Ophthalmology
• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Research Interest

• Molecular Genetics of Inherited Eye Diseases

Current Projects

• Molecular genetics of inherited eye diseases including:
  • Age-related macular degeneration
  • Hereditary Glaucoma
  • Autosomal dominant RPE dystrophies
  • Autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa
  • Autosomal dominant neovascular inflammatory vitreoretinopathy
  • Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy
  • Leber congenital amaurosis
  • Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy
  • Hereditary corneal dystrophies
  • Stickler syndrome
  • von Hippel Lindau syndrome
• (see Carver Laboratory for Molecular Diagnosis and Center for Macular Degeneration)