Clearside Biomedical, Inc. announced the appointment of Glenn C. Yiu, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California, Davis, to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), which is comprised of retinal physicians who provide medical and scientific expertise and input on the Company?s research and development programs. Glenn C. Yiu, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California, Davis, where he works as a clinician-scientist and cares for patients as a board-certified vitreoretinal surgeon. He completed his dual MD-PhD degrees at Harvard Medical School, residency training at the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary and vitreoretinal fellowship at Duke. He joined UC Davis in 2014, where he leads a translational research program studying age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and other retinal diseases, with focus on ocular imaging technologies, gene editing and delivery, and animal models of retinal disease.

Dr. Yiu reported the first use of CRISPR-based genome editing as a treatment strategy for wet AMD, developed the use of microneedles for suprachoroidal gene delivery, and pioneered important studies on AMD and other retinal disease models in nonhuman primates. He also serves as the Associate Director of Davis-Based Medical Student Research and Director of Tele-ophthalmology at UC Davis, where he has pioneered a teleretinal screening program to expand eye screening among diabetic patients in California. Dr. Yiu has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles and book chapters and is the editor of the textbook "Vitreoretinal Disorders." He also serves on the editorial board of Scientific Reports and Frontiers in Genome Editing, as a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting Program Committee, and as a course lecturer at the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

He is an elected member of the Retina Society and Macula Society, a Fellow of the American Society of Retinal Specialists, and a recipient of numerous awards including the Ronald G. Michels Fellowship, the Heed Fellowship, the Retina Society Fellowship Research Award, the Macula Society Evangelos S. Gragoudas Award, UC Davis Public Service Award, AAO Achievement Award, ASRS Senior Honor Award, and ARVO Carl Camras Translational Research Award.