Cleveland Clinic
Shaker Heights, OH, United States
Phoebe Lin, MD, PhD, full staff at the Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, performs clinical care in ocular inflammatory and retinal diseases, vitreoretinal surgery, educates residents and fellows, and performs research identifying novel therapeutic targets for the treatment of ocular inflammatory disease and macular degeneration. She has won numerous research awards including the Michel’s fellowship and Heed fellowship, as well as a Research to Prevent Blindness Career Development Award, a Thome Foundation Award, and an Alcon Young Investigator Award. Her lab is a National Eye Institute-funded lab that utilizes animal models of uveitis (an inflammatory condition of the middle lining of the eye) to address several pathways: leukocyte migration in autoimmune uveitis, immune regulation as a target for autoimmune uveitis, and the role of the mammalian commensal intestinal microbiota in intestinal immunity and systemic immunity affecting the development and mitigation of ocular inflammation. Dr. Lin’s lab is also investigating the impact of an intestinal dysbiosis that occurs in age-related macular degeneration. She has published over 100 scientific articles, book chapters, and books. She has led the American Uveitis Society as president-elect, and now president (2025-2026), and is past-president of the Pacific Coast Oto-Ophthalmological Society.
Monday, October 27, 2025
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Central Time
Disclosure(s): Alimera Sciences/ANI: Consultant (Terminated); Regeneron: Consultant (Ongoing)
