Research Faculty

Stephen Tsang, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Ophthalmology and Pathology
Mail Address:

Eye Institute Research
630 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032

Office Location:

Eye Institute Research
Room 509B
160 Fort Washington Avenue
New York, NY 10032

Telephone: 212-342-1189
Fax: 212-305-4987
Email: sht2@columbia.edu

Research Areas

Regenerative Medicine: stem cell and gene- based therapies for macular degenerations and retinitis pigmentosa.

Selected Awards and Honors

1988 - 1989

Alpha Epsilon Delta, National Premedical Honor Society, Maryland Alpha (Historian)

1988 - 1989

Dean's List, The Johns Hopkins University

1989

Graduate with Departmental Honors

1989

Recipient of Student Activities Award, The Johns Hopkins University

1989 - 1997

NIH-National Institute of General Medical Sciences Medical Scientist Training Program: MSTP fellowship PHS Grant # T32 GM 073667-14

1995

ARVO/National Eye Institute Travel Fellowship Grant for the 1995 ARVO meeting

1996

Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, Graduate Sch of Arts & Sciences, Columbia U.

1996

ACGA Student Award, presented at the ASHG Meeting

1997

Dr. Alfred Steiner Award for Best Medical Student Research, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia U.

1997

Best Overall Presentation at Eastern Student Research Forum sponsored by American Medical Association and the University of Miami

1997

Travel Grant, European Students' Conference at the Charité in Berlin

1998

Edith McKane Award in Ophthalmology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia U.

1998

John Lattimer Award in Urology, College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Columbia U.

2000

Jules Stein Eye Institute Research Award

2000

RPB-Association of University Professors in Ophthalmology (AUPO) Resident Award

2003

Burroughs-Wellcome Fund Career Award in Biomedical Sciences

2003

RPB Association of University Professors in Ophthalmology Resident Award

2003

Nesburn Resident Award

2004

Dennis W. Jahnigen Award, American Geriatrics Society

2005

Becker-AUPO-RPB Award

2006

ARVO/Alcon Early Career Clinician Scientist Award

2006

Dr. Isaac Bekhor Lecturer, Doheny Eye Institute at University of Southern California (9/29)

2007

Charles E. Culpeper Prize

2008

Teacher Recognition Award

2008,09

Listed as one of "America's Top Ophthalmologists" by Consumers' Research Council of America

2009

Patients' Choice Award for 2008

2009

Elected to Macular Society

2010

Keynote Speaker, GTCbio 2nd Annual Ocular Diseases & Drug Discovery conference, May 28, 2010


Research Summary

Staff

Selected Recent Publications