Stephen Rose, PhD, chief research officer of the Foundation Fighting Blindness. Dr. Rose is the former director of the Division of Clinical Recombinant DNA Research at the Office of Biotechnology Activities of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He has received the US Secretary of Health’s Distinguished Service Award, the NIH Director’s Award and the NIH Merit Award. www.Blindness.org
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of vision loss in people over age 55, has always been considered…
