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Glaucoma Foundation grants award to Ursula Schlötzer-Schrehardt, PhD

Issue: June 2016

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Ursula Schlötzer-Schrehardt, PhD , received the 2016 Dr. Robert Ritch Award for Excellence and Innovation in Glaucoma at the Glaucoma Foundation’s gala dinner, which took place during the Interdisciplinary Scientific Think Tank in New York, according to a press release.

Schlötzer-Schrehardt, an associate professor and lecturer in experimental ophthalmology and senior scientist in the department of ophthalmology at the University of Erlangen in Germany, gained recognition as a researcher in the field of exfoliation syndrome (XFS) and exfoliation glaucoma. Her most influential contribution is the documentation of XFS as a new systematic process that affects the heart, lungs, liver, kidney, cerebral meninges and blood vessel walls.

She is currently focusing on functional genetic studies to find how variants in XFS-associated genes affect pathophysiology.

XFS is currently the focus of the foundation’s research initiatives, and this was the fourth think tank to explore the topic.