KRZYSZTOF PALCZEWSKI
IRVING H. LEOPOLD PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
UCI
WHY: World-renowned scientist focused on vision. Donald Bren Professor of Ophthalmology at UCI’s School of Medicine, and director of the Center for Translational Vision Research at UCI’s Gavin Herbert Eye Institute.
IN THE NEWS: Director of one of 12 programs chosen to be part of the Falling Leaves Foundation Medical Innovation Building, which is funded by two gifts totaling more than $50M from Adeline and Robert Mah. Working on a cure for blindness.
NOTABLE: Won a Business Journal Innovator of the Year Award in 2022.
QUOTABLE: “Science and education are investments.”
