Research Faculty

Lucian Del Priore, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Robert L. Burch III Scholar
Mail Address:

Dept. of Ophthalmology
Columbia University
630 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032
Office Location:

Eye Research Addition
7th Floor, Room 711
160 Fort Washington Avenue
New York, NY 10032

Telephone: 212-305-2923
Fax: 212-342-1724
Email: ldelpriore@yahoo.com
Research Areas
Binding of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) to Bruch's membrane – transplantation of RPE – xenotransplantation – changes in gene expression of RPE seeded on Bruch's membrane in eyes containing age-dependent macular degeneration.

Selected Awards and Honors

New York Super Doctors, supplement to the New York Times, 2008, 2009, 2010.

Senior Honor Award, The American Society of Retina Specialists, New York, New York,  September 2009.

Fellow of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, ARVO Fellow Silver level, inducted in the Class of 2009.

New York’s Top Doctors, New York magazine, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.

Best Doctors in America, included in 2005-2006 database.

Honor Award, The American Society of Retina Specialists, San Diego, CA 2004.

America’s Top Doctors, included within a guide published by Castle Connolly Medical Limited, Second Edition, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.

Honor Award, The Vitreous Society, awarded 2002.

Lew R. Wasserman Award, Research to Prevent Blindness, June 1999

Teacher of the Year Award, Department of Ophthalmology, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, June 1999

Honor Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology, awarded 1994

Heed/Knapp Foundation Fellow, July 1988 to June 1989 

Heed Foundation Fellow, July 1987 to June 1988

Medical Scientist Training Program Fellow, September 1977 to November 1979, The University of Rochester 

Biophysics Fellow, September 1976 to August 1977, Cornell University 

Sigma Pi Sigma, elected in l974 

Board of Regents Scholar, New York State, September 1971 to June 1975


Research Summary

Staff

Selected Recent Publications