Paul A. Sieving

Prior to joining the NIH in 2001, he served on the faculty of the University of Michigan Medical School as the Paul R. Lichter Professor of Ophthalmic Genetics.

[6] He maintains a small clinical practice at NEI for patients with these and other genetic retinal diseases, including Stargardt juvenile macular degeneration.

[1] Sieving established the NEI Audacious Goals Initiative (AGI) for Regenerative Medicine, a major program to develop treatments for eye diseases.

[7] The AGI is a strategic research effort to restore function of critical nerve cells in the eye and visual system even after they are damaged by disease.

He then did a clinical fellowship in genetic retinal degenerations with Eliot Berson in 1984–85 at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.