Miriam Kolko

Affiliation

Copenhagen University Hospital

Biography

Miriam Kolko is a Professor of Translational Eye Research at the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology at the University of Copenhagen, as well as chief physician and glaucoma specialist at the Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet Glostrup. She is currently President of the Danish Glaucoma Society and a board member of Fight for Sight, Denmark. At the University of Copenhagen, Professor Kolko heads the Personalised Medicine Research Cluster and the Eye Translational Research Unit. As a clinician-scientist she bridges the gap, between a clinical career with glaucoma patients and translational research models, to understand the pathophysiology and current management of glaucoma.