Margaret M. DeAngelis is currently a Professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine and has focused her career on vision research since 1999 when she received a post-doctoral fellowship training grant on macular degeneration as part of the Molecular Basis of Eye Disease program at Harvard Medical School. Working in collaboration with clinicians throughout her career, she has recruited, ascertained, and developed large patient populations of both families and unrelated case controls to study the genetic and epidemiologic underpinnings of both common and rare ophthalmic conditions. She has over 60 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and reviews. She serves on several editorial boards and national and international grant review panels. Her work has been generously funded by the NEI, The ALSAM Foundation, The Skaggs Research Foundation, The Bank of America/Thome Memorial Fund, the Carl Reeves Foundation, the Macular Degeneration Foundation, and the Center of Aging, Division of Geriatrics, University of Utah.