Janey Wiggs

Affiliation

Harvard Medical School Mass Eye and Ear

Biography

Janey Wiggs, MD, PhD is the Paul Austin Chandler Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and is the Vice Chair for Clinical Research in Ophthalmology, Associate Director of the Ocular Genomics Institute, and the Director of the Genetics Diagnostic Laboratory at Mass. Eye and Ear. Dr. Wiggs received her BA and PhD degrees in biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and her MD degree from Harvard. She completed an ophthalmology residency at Mass. Eye and Ear and fellowship training in glaucoma and in medical genetics and is board certified in both Ophthalmology and in Medical Genetics. Dr. Wiggs’ research program is focused on the discovery and characterization of genetic factors that contribute to the blinding eye disease glaucoma and is funded by the National Eye Institute. She currently serves on a number of editorial and scientific advisory boards, is a past member of the National Advisory Council of the National Eye Institute and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine