Dr. Divya Srikumaran is an associate professor of ophthalmology in the Division of Cornea and External Disease at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute received her M.D. degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, after which she completed her ophthalmology residency and cornea fellowship training at the Wilmer Eye Institute. Dr. Srikumaran’s research interest includes the assessment of corneal transplant outcomes and risk factors for receiving keratoplasty through big data sources, including administrative claims data. She received the Hoskins Center IRIS Registry Research Fund Award through the American Academy of Ophthalmology as well as the EBAA Pilot Research grant to study real-world endothelial keratoplasty outcomes. In addition, she serves on the scientific program committee of the EBAA and is participating in their Physician Leadership Program. She is also a member of the editorial board for Cornea and will serve as an associate editor for the society’s new journal, Cornea Open.
Prof. Dr. Steven L. Salzberg is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, where he is also the Director of the Center for Computational Biology in the Whiting School of Engineering and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Genetic Medicine. From 2005–2011, he was the Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB) and the Horvitz Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. From 1997–2005, he was Senior Director of Bioinformatics at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland, one of the world's leading DNA sequencing centers at the time. Dr. Salzberg received his B.A. degree in English M.S. and M.Phil. degrees in Computer Science from Yale University and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University. He joined the Computer Science Department at Johns Hopkins as an Assistant Professor in 1989. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a Fellow of AAAS, ACM, and ISCB. He was the 2020 recipient of the Senior Scientist Award from the International Society for Computational Biology. His Research Interests include Bioinformatics, Gene finding, Genome assembly, Genome technology, and Genomics.
Dr. Uri S. Soiberman is an associate professor of ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute. He received his medical degree from the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He completed his ophthalmology residency at Tel Aviv Medical Center and his research and clinical fellowships in the field of cornea, cataract, and external disease at the Wilmer Eye Institute. He specializes in the medical and surgical treatment of corneal and anterior segment diseases, including corneal transplants, cataract surgery, and intraocular lens complications. He is particularly interested in keratoconus and novel treatments for this disease; this disease is Dr. Soiberman's primary research focus. He is also actively studying the application of nanomedicine in the field of cornea.
