Brian Hafler, MD/PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and of PathologyCards
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Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and of Pathology
Biography
After graduating magna cum laude from Princeton University, Dr. Hafler earned his MD/PhD from Harvard Medical School and completed a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Connie Cepko's laboratory at Harvard. He completed an ophthalmology residency at Yale School of Medicine/Yale-New Haven Hospital and a fellowship in retina at Mass. Eye and Ear as a Heed Fellow where he specialized in Inherited Retinal Degenerations. Following his fellowship, he received a K08 Clinical Scientist Development Award from the NIH and joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School where he served on Mass. Eye and Ear’s Retina Service and in the Emergency and Trauma Eye Care Department. He has a laboratory in the Department of Ophthalmology in the Yale School of Medicine where he recently generated the first single-cell human retinal transcriptomic atlas and identified the cell types driving macular degeneration. He recently received the American Society for Clinical Investigation Young Physician Scientist Award, the Thome Memorial Foundation Award for AMD Research, and was named the William R. Orthwein, Jr. ’38 Yale Scholar. He studies macular degeneration and glaucoma using single-cell transcriptomics to identify novel therapeutic approaches.
Appointments
Ophthalmology
Assistant ProfessorPrimaryPathology
Assistant ProfessorSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Hafler, Brian Lab
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
- Janeway Society
- Macular Degeneration
- Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
- Neural Disorders
- Neuroscience Track
- Ophthalmology
- Pathology
- Pathology Research
- Program for Neuroinflammation
- Program in Translational Biomedicine (PTB)
- Retina & Vitreous
- Vitreoretinal Fellowship Faculty
- Wu Tsai Institute
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Medicine
Education & Training
- MD/PhD
- Harvard Medical School (2019)
Clinical Care
Overview
Clinical Specialties
Fact Sheets
Macular Degeneration
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Board Certifications
Ophthalmology
- Certification Organization
- AB of Ophthalmology
- Original Certification Date
- 2016
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News
- July 11, 2024Source: Yale Ventures
11 Yale Projects Receive Awards from the Colton Center for Autoimmunity
- May 12, 2023
Study Suggests Retina Represents System for Investigating Therapeutic Approaches in Neurodegenerative Diseases
- February 13, 2023
Khera Receives ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Award
- November 08, 2022
Brian Hafler, MD Recipient of $1,500,000 Cushing Foundation Award for Excellence and Creativity in Scientific Research