December 11, 2018
Tonia Rex, Ph.D., is Marlene and Spencer Hays Director in Translational Vision Research, a professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences and the associate vice chair for translational research at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. As a visual system neuroscientist with training in retinal gene therapy, her laboratory studies mechanisms and neuroprotective strategies in complex neurodegenerations of the visual system, including glaucoma and trauma.