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Dr. Corson is a Professor and Co-Director, Graduate Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is also a Professor of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences at UofT and an Affiliate Scientist at the Donald K. Johnson Eye Institute, Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network. He holds HonBSc, MSc, and PhD degrees from the University of Toronto, and completed a CIHR-funded postdoctoral fellowship in chemical biology with Craig Crews at Yale University. He established his lab in 2010 at Indiana University School of Medicine in the Department of Ophthalmology, where he became Vice-Chair for Basic and Translational Research, before serving as Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, where he continues to hold an adjunct appointment. He is an author on over 100 publications and an inventor on 12 patents with intellectual property optioned and/or licensed to multiple companies. His lab is currently supported by NSERC, CFI, R01 grants from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), plus foundation grants. Selected awards include the Merrill Grayson Senior Chair and a Showalter Scholar at the Indiana University School of Medicine, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Indiana Center for Biomedical Innovation, and a Watanabe Translational Scholar of the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. He is on the editorial board of several journals and currently serves as a charter member of the NIH Pathobiology of Eye Disease 1 study section (review panel) as well as reviewing for public and private funders in the US, Canada, UK, Europe, and Australasia.

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