Cell-Based Therapy for Degenerative Retinal Disease / Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (PDF)

University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA. He has published 40 peer-reviewed papers and invited reviews, and five book chapters. He is a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Club Jules Gonin and Euretina. He is a founding executive committee member of the Young Retinal Specialists (YOURS) initiative of Euretina.

Dr. Singh received The Ruskell Medal in 2013 and the Fritz Tobler Foundation Award and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Clinician Scientist Award in 2016. In the same year he received the European Vision Institute Publication of the Year recognition for the joint first authored paper entitled "Emerging therapies for inherited retinal degeneration" published in Science Translational Medicine. He received the Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award in 2017 and the Foundation Fighting Blindness Career Development Award in 2018. He is the Principal Investigator for several observational and interventional clinical trials in retinal degenerative diseases, and leads a translational research laboratory focused on retinal stem cell therapy development.



Dr. Casaroli-Marano graduated from Faculty of Medical Sciences of Santa Casa (São Paulo, Brazil) and completed resident training at the Barraquer Institute (Barcelona, Spain) and further fellowship as Foreign Assistant at the Center Hospitalier National d'Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingt (Paris, France). He obtained a Master degree in Immunology, a PhD in Cell Biology and Pathology, and a post-PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology by the University of Barcelona. Currently, he is Professor of Ophthalmology at the School of Medicine in the University of Barcelona and Senior Consultant at the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona. He is Scientific Director at Barcelona Tissue Bank (BTB-BST) and researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Research (IIB-Sant Pau) and in the Spanish Network of Ophthalmological Research (OftaRed-RETICS ISCIII).





Dr. Casaroli-Marano is member of the expert committee of several national and international research agencies and is reviewer of several peer-review translational journals. He is a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and co-editor with Dr. Zarbin of Cell-Based Therapy for Retinal Degenerative Disease. He is also Affiliate Professor at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Escola Paulista de Medicina (UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil). He was co-founder of CellTec-UB, biotechnological spin-off at the University of Barcelona, and co-founder of Advanced In Vitro Cell Technologies-PCB (Advancell), a biotechnological and pharmaceutical initiative at the Scientific Park of Barcelona, where he served as scientific advisor, senior researcher and project leader.