Dr. Yoko Ozawa

Yoko Ozawa, M.D., Ph.D., works as a Professor and Director of the Department of Ophthalmology, St. Luke’s International University and Hospital. She is a specialist in vitreal, retinal, and macular diseases, and a vitreo-retinal surgeon and medical retina clinician. She also works as an Associate Professor and a Lab Chief of the Laboratory of Retinal Cell Biology (RCB lab) in the Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine. Her recent research interest is the aging and neuroprotection of the retina, and its association with oxidative stress and inflammation. One of her missions is to find a new approach to neuroprotective treatment for retinal diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinitis pigmentosa.