Vittorio Porciatti

Affiliation

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA

Biography

Vittorio Porciatti DSc is the James L. Knight Professorship of Ophthalmology and Vice Chair of Research at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, where he also has secondary appointments at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and at the Neuroscience Program. He received his education in biological sciences and training in neurosciences in Pisa, Italy, where he also worked for many years as senior scientist at the Institute of Neurophysiology of the National Research Council (CNR) with secondary appointment at the Department of Ophthalmology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy. His translational research on the visual system has taken advantage of non-invasive electrophysiological tools for retinal ganglion cell function testing such as the Pattern Electroretinogram that he pioneered and continuously developed. At the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, he has developed NIH-funded programs on retinal ganglion cell plasticity and early detection/restoration of visual function in clinical and experimental models of glaucoma and optic nerve disorders.