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Christine Wildsoet
Principal Investigator
Christine Wildsoet
PhD, Dip Appl Sc (Optom), BSc (Hons), FAAO, Associate Professor in Optometry
& Vision Science
Email: wildsoet@uclink.berkeley.edu
I am an Australian-trained Optometrist with an honors degree in Pharmacology.
I first became involved in myopia research with my PhD research undertaken
under the mentorship of Professor Jack Pettigrew, Vision Touch Hearing
research Center, University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia. The title
of my PhD thesis was “Retinal Control of Eye Growth and Refractive
Error in the Chick.
After serving on the faculty member of the School of Optometry, Queensland
University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia for a number of years, I
moved to the US, first to the New England College of Optometry in Boston
(1996-1999), and later to University of California - Berkeley’s
School of optometry (2000+).
Myopia and ocular growth regulation have remained the main focus of my
research (both human- and animal-based), although I am also interested
in intraocular pressure regulation, ocular therapeutics and ocular public
health. I maintain research collaborations in the USA, Australia, Hong
Kong, Malaysia, Korea, UK, Canada and Spain.
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