Henry John Klassen MD, PhD

Henry Klassen received his MD and PhD degrees at the University of Pittsburgh, followed by an internship at The Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and residency in ophthalmology at Yale Eye Center. He next completed a combined fellowship in London, which included medical retina with Prof. Alan Bird at Moorfields Eye Hospital and research with Prof. Ray Lund at the Institute of Ophthalmology. After his fellowship, he was Director of Stem Cell Research at Children’s Hospital of Orange County, then moved to the Singapore Eye Research Institute, before being recruited to the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of California, Irvine, where he is Director of the Stem Cell and Retinal Regeneration Program.