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Ruth Heidelberger, MD PhD

Dr. Heidelberger earned her undergraduate, graduate and medical degrees at Stony Brook University.  As an undergraduate, Dr. Heidelberger trained in the laboratory of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Dr. Paul C. Lauterbur.  She then performed her dissertation research under the direction of neuroscientist Dr. Gary Matthews. Dr. Heidelberger received her postdoctoral research training in membrane biophysics under the guidance of Nobel Laureate Professor Erwin Neher at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. Dr. Heidelberger joined the faculty of McGovern Medical School in 1996, where she currently holds the Frederic B. Asche Chair in Ophthalmology and is a tenured Full Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy.