Paul Sieving

Member of the IOB Scientific Advisory Board
  • Director of the National Eye Institute, NIH (since 2001)
  • Paul R. Lichter Professor of Ophthalmic Genetics at the University of Michigan
  • Founding director of the Center for Retinal and Macular Degeneration in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan
  • Graduate studies in physics and law at Yale M.D. from the University of Illinois
  • College of Medicine in 1978
  • Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Illinois
  • Graduate College in 1981
  • Vice chair for clinical research for the Foundation Fighting Blindness (1996-2001)
  • Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (since 2006)
  • Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (since 2014)