About Me
Dr. Reza Dana is an internationally recognized expert in corneal disorders and ocular inflammation. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins and Harvard Universities, who holds the Claes Dohlman Chair in Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. He is Director of the Cornea Service at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Senior Scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, where he leads the Laboratory of Corneal Immunology, Transplantation and Regeneration, and a member of the Harvard Medical School Graduate Program in Immunology (Committee on Immunology). Dr. Dana also directs the Harvard-Vision Clinical Scientist Development Program.
Dr. Dana has trained over 95 clinical fellows, and 140 postdoctoral fellows and students in his laboratory to date, the significant majority holding full-time academic positions in ophthalmology and vision research. He is recipient of the Harvard Medical School A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award.
Clinical Interests
High-Risk Transplantation, Stem cells, Graft-versus-Host Disease, Immune-Mediated Corneal Disorders, Infection, Autoimmunity