Audrey Bernstein PhD

Audrey M. Bernstein is a tenured Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences with secondary appointments in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Cell and Developmental Biology at Upstate Medical University. She is also a Research Health Scientist at the Syracuse VA Medical Center. Before joining Upstate in the summer of 2017, she was a faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in NYC. Dr. Bernstein has held leadership appointments in the vision community including an elected position in the program committee for the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). She also serves on several study sections including the National Eye Institute (NEI) and the DOD Vision Program.

Dr. Bernstein’s research is supported by the NIH-NEI, the VA, Research to Prevent Blindness, The Glaucoma Foundation, BrightFocus Foundation, The Safra Foundation, and The Mayer Family Foundation. She is a reviewer for numerous journals and an editor for eLIFE. Recently, she has been honored with the President's Award for Excellence and Leadership in Research at Upstate. She is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of DUB Therapeutics, Inc., a spin-out company based on her regenerative healing therapeutic.