Dr. Simon John
Dr. John is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Senior Staff Scientist at The Jackson Laboratory. He is also a Research Assistant Professor in Ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine and on the Graduate Faculty at the University of Maine. He received his B.Sc. degree - joint honors in zoology and genetics - from University College Cardiff, South Wales. He earned his Ph.D. in Biology (studying human genetics) from McGill University, where he worked with Rima Rozen and Charles Scriver on the genetics of phenylketonuria. After postdoctoral training, studying genes contributing to essential hypertension with Oliver Smithies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he joined The Jackson Laboratory.
Dr. John has served on various advisory panels to the National institutes of Health and other agencies. He is a member of various professional organizations including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for Neuroscience. He has received various awards for his research. Dr. John was honored in both 1997 and 1998 with the Ruth Salta Junior Investigator Achievement Award from the National Glaucoma Research Program of the American Health Assistance Foundation. He received the Cogan Award in 2004 from the Association for Research and Visual Science, to recognize his important contributions to ophthalmology and visual science. Also in 2004, he received the Lewis Rudin Glaucoma Prize from the New York Academy of Medicine for outstanding work in glaucoma. In 2006, he received the Global Glaucoma Award from the Association of International Glaucoma Societies for daring, breakthrough, creative, original body of work and for most important glaucoma paper in 2005.
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