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Dr. John is also Senior Staff Scientist at the Jackson Laboratory and Research Assistant Professor in Ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine. He received his B.Sc. degree in zoology and genetics from University College Cardiff, South Wales, and his Ph.D. degree in biology from McGill University, Canada, where he worked with Rima Rozen and Charles Scriver on the genetics of phenylketonuria. His postdoctoral training studying genes contributing to essential hypertension was done with Oliver Smithies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. John has been honored with the 1997 and 1998 Ruth Salta Junior Investigator Achievement Award from the National Glaucoma Research Program of the American Health Assistance Foundation, the 2004 Cogan Award from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the 2004 Lewis Rudin Glaucoma Prize from the New York Academy of Medicine, the 2006 Global Award from the Association of International Glaucoma Societies, and the Alcon Research Institute Award in 2008.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:
Simon John's laboratory uses a combination of molecular, genetic, and physiologic methods to identify genes and pathophysiologic processes that contribute to the neurodegenerative disease glaucoma.
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Photo: Kimball Wade, The Jackson Laboratory
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