Peter A. Campochiaro

Dr. PETER A. CAMPOCHIARO, the George S. and Dolores D. Eccles Professor of Ophthalmology and Neuroscience at the Wilmer Eye Institute, was trained at the University of Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the University of Virginia, and Wilmer. He joined the Wilmer Faculty in 1991. His major research interests are in gaining a greater understanding of the roles of peptide growth and trophic factors in the retina and retinal pigmented-epithelium with an ultimate goal of developing new treatments for proliferative retinopathies, choroidal neovascularization, and retinal degenerations.