Professor and Director, Eye Program
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California, United States
Dr. Alexander Ljubimov is an internationally recognized eye and cancer researcher, with over 130 publications. He is Director of Regenerative Institute Eye Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Neurosurgery, and Professor of Medicine at UCLA School of Medicine. He develops gene and epigenetic therapy to normalize stem cells in diabetic corneas, and targeted nanotherapeutics for cancer and eye diseases. Dr. Ljubimov has 3 current National istitutes of Health (NIH) R01 grants. He served on numerous NIH Study Sections, and reviewed grants for various agencies in U.S.A., U.K., France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia, and the Netherlands. Dr. Ljubimov is an Editorial Board member of 16 scientific journals including Stem Cells Translational Medicine, Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Experimental Eye Research, Cells, Scientific Reports, and Ocular Surface. He is Gold Fellow of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (U.K.). Dr. Ljubimov received his summa cum laude M.S. degree from Moscow State University (Russia), and his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from the Russian Cancer Research Center. He did postdoctoral training in the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon (France).
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