Joanne Matsubara

Dr. Joanne Matsubara has been at the University of British Columbia since 1988 where she is a professor and director of research in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. She is also the assistant director of the Centre for Macular Research, an associate member in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences and a member of the Brain Research Centre. She received her PhD from the University of California and undertook fellowship training at Cold Spring Harbor Labs and at Dalhousie University. Dr. Matsubara's research focuses on basic and translational research on retinal diseases including age-related macular degeneration, proliferative vitreoretinopathy, proliferative diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma.