FRONTIERS in Vision Science Lecture
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1638 NW 10th Ave, Miami, FL 33136
Guest Speaker: Shigeru Kinoshita, M.D., Ph.D.
A graduate from Osaka University Medical School in 1974; served as the Professor and Chairman
of Ophthalmology at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine since 1992. In the early 1980s at
Schepens Eye Research Institute, he (in collaboration with Dr. Richard A. Thoft) established the
concept of centripetal movement of corneal epithelium, and his groundbreaking work has shed new
light on the importance of limbal epithelium. His series of findings has had an enormous impact on this subject, ultimately contributing to the development of the corneal stem cell theory. .
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