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David C. Beebe, Ph.D., the Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, has become the new president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), the world's largest vision research organization.
The president is chosen from the ARVO Board of Trustees. Beebe has been on the board since 1995, representing researchers who investigate the eye's lens.
Beebe, also a professor of cell biology and physiology, examines how the lens forms during embryonic life and the basic mechanisms that predispose people to cataracts. He looks at both genetic and environmental factors that could contribute to cataracts.
He is director of the Cataract Research Center at the School of Medicine, one of the largest groups in the world working on the biology and pathology of cataracts, the leading cause of blindness in the world.
Beebe joined Washington University in 1995 after serving as professor and chairman of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md.
