Alexander Ljubimov

Dr. Alexander Ljubimov serves as Director of the Eye Program, Regenerative Medicine Institute, and as Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He is also Professor of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine. Dr. Ljubimov brings more than 30 years of experience in the field of cancer research, which has led to medical innovations including the production of antibodies to cancer markers, currently being manufactured by more than 15 companies around the world.

An internationally recognized eye researcher, Dr. Ljubimov has authored more than 100 publications in both ophthalmology and cancer research and has presented his results at numerous national and international conferences. Dr. Ljubimov joined Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 1993 to direct the new program in diabetic retinopathy.

Since 1998, his research in ocular diabetes is funded by the National Institutes of Health. He is on the Editorial Boards of 11 scientific journals and served on many grant review panels. He is Gold Fellow of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and an Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (London).