Affiliation: University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, USC Roski Eye Institute

Hossein Ameri is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the USC Roski Eye Institute of the University of Southern California and the Director of the USC Retinal Degeneration Center. Dr. Ameri graduated from University of Medical Sciences in and received ophthalmology and vitreoretinal surgery training in Ireland, where he was also an official lecturer at the University College- and a founding member of the Irish Retinal Prosthesis Group. Dr. Ameri then moved to Los Angeles for a research fellowship and became an Assistant Professor of Research Ophthalmology at the Doheny Eye Institute of the University of Southern California. He repeated an ophthalmology residency and earned a PhD in neuroscience and cell biology from the University of Texas Medical Branch, and completed a second vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at the USC Roski Eye Institute. His research experience includes preclinical studies of the Argus II retinal prosthesis, wide-field retinal prosthesis, retinal angiogenesis, retinal vascular disease, and ocular ultrasound. Dr. Ameri holds several patents and has numerous publications. Currently, he carries out basic and clinical research on retinal degeneration and retinal vascular disease, and his lab is focused on developing treatments for acquired and inherited retinal diseases through gene therapy. In particular, he is interested in developing non-viral vector delivery methods and long-term treatments that can be delivered through simple eye injections.