Pedram Hamrah is a German-American

ophthalmologist Ophthalmology ( ) is a surgery, surgical subspecialty within medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of eye disorders. An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. Followin ...

and immunologist. He obtained his

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from the

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Career

In 2002, together with Reza Dana and Ying Liu, he was the first to discover the presence of and characterize resident antigen-presenting cells in the central

cornea The cornea is the transparent front part of the eye that covers the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber. Along with the anterior chamber and lens, the cornea refracts light, accounting for approximately two-thirds of the eye's total optical power ...

. Hamrah is currently Professor and Vice Chair of Research and Academic Programs, co-director of Cornea Service, Director of the Center for Translational Ocular Immunology, Tufts Medical Center, Departments of Ophthalmology,

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. He was a faculty member in the laboratory of

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at Harvard's Immune Disease Institute from 2008 to 2012. Currently, Hamrah serves as the Section Editor for Clinical Science and Clinical Practice of the journal The Ocular Surface, Cornea Section Editor of the journal Eye, Assistant Editor of the journal Ocular Immunology and Inflammation, and Ophthalmology Associate Editor for BMC Ophthalmology. He serves on numerous additional editorial boards and is a peer reviewer for over 45 ophthalmology, immunology, and transplantation journals. He is an instructor at the American Academy of Ophthalmology and recently served as Chair of the ARVO Members-in-Training Committee.

Award and recognition

* Claes Dohlman Society Award. * The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Excellence in Research Scholarship Award. * The Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology/Research to Prevent Blindness Resident and Fellow Research Award. * The Achievement Award from the

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. * Silver Fellow at the

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (abbreviated ARVO) is an American learned society dedicated to ophthalmology and other vision-related topics. As of 2019, it has almost 12,000 members from 75 different countries. It was est ...

Selected works

*Hamrah, Pedram, Ying Liu, Qiang Zhang, and M. Reza Dana. "The corneal stroma is endowed with a significant number of resident dendritic cells."

Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science ''Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science'' (''IOVS'') is an online journal published by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). History The journal was established as an official publication of the Association for R ...

44, no. 2 (2003): 581–589. *Hamrah, Pedram, Qiang Zhang, Ying Liu, and M. Reza Dana. "Novel characterization of MHC class II–negative population of resident corneal Langerhans cell–type dendritic cells."

43, no. 3 (2002): 639–646. *Hamrah, Pedram, Syed O. Huq, Ying Liu, Qiang Zhang, and M. Reza Dana. "Corneal immunity is mediated by heterogeneous population of antigen‐presenting cells."

Journal of Leukocyte Biology The ''Journal of Leukocyte Biology'' is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of immunology. The focus of the journal is on leukocyte physiology and leukocyte behavior within the immune system. Content is available for free a ...

74, no. 2 (2003): 172–178. *Cursiefen, Claus, Lu Chen, Magali Saint-Geniez, Pedram Hamrah, Yiping Jin, Saadia Rashid, Bronislaw Pytowski et al. "Nonvascular VEGF receptor 3 expression by corneal epithelium maintains avascularity and vision."

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America'' (often abbreviated ''PNAS'' or ''PNAS USA'') is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal. It is the official journal of the National Academy of Sci ...

103, no. 30 (2006): 11405–11410. *Chen, Lu, Pedram Hamrah, Claus Cursiefen, Qiang Zhang, Bronislaw Pytowski, J. Wayne Streilein, and M. Reza Dana. "Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-3 mediates induction of corneal alloimmunity."

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10, no. 8 (2004): 813–815. *Aggarwal, Shruti, Ahmad Kheirkhah, Bernardo M. Cavalcanti, Andrea Cruzat, Arsia Jamali, Pedram Hamrah. “Correlation of Corneal Immune Cell Changes with Clinical Severity in Dry Eye Disease: An in vivo Confocal Microscopy Study.” The Ocular Surface 19, no. 1 (January 2021): 183–189. *Cox, Stephanie M., Gabriela Dieckmann, Pedram Hamrah, Melina I. Morkin, M. Cuneyt Ozmen, Rumzah Paracha, Ramy Rashad, Nedda Sanayei. “Efficacy and Tolerability of Nortriptyline in the Management of Neuropathic Corneal Pain. The Ocular Surface 18, no. 4 (October 2020): 814-820. *Ciolino, B. Joseph, Jessica Girgis, Pedram Hamrah, Arsia Jamali, Ahmad Kheirkhah, Hidenaga Kobashi. “A Randomized, Sham-Controlled Trial of Intraductal Meibomian Gland Probing with or without Topical Antibiotic/Steroid for Obstructive Meibomian Gland Dysfunction.” ''The Ocular Surface'' 18, no. 4 (October 2020): 852–856. *Bayraktutar, Betul N., Pedram Hamrah, Jonathan Lilley, Francis S. Mah, Mina Massaro-Giordano, Leyla Yavuz Saricay. “Efficacy of Recombinant Human Nerve Growth Factor in Stage 1 Neurotrophic Keratopathy. Ophthalmology 129, no. 12 (December 2022): 1448–1450.

References

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