Gerard A. Lutty

GERARD A. LUTTY, PhD, is the G. Edward and G. Britton Durell Professor of Ophthalmology and the director of the Ocular Vasculogenesis and Angiogenesis Laboratory at the Wilmer Eye Institute, which studies the development of blood vessels in the eye and how they change in diseases like age-related macular degeneration, retinopathy of prematurity, and sickle cell and diabetic retinopathies. The focus is on the factors that stimulate new blood vessels, angiogenic factors, and naturally occurring inhibitors of angiogenesis, antiangiogenic factors, with the goal of developing therapies to stop the blood vessels from being blocked in ischemic retinopathies and inhibit the growth of neovascularization in the retina and choroid.

Dr. Lutty received his MS in microbiology at Catholic University and his PhD in cell biology/biochemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He first joined the Wilmer faculty in 1979.