Ronald Yamamoto

Ronald is co-founder, Chief Scientific Officer and a Board observer of Oxular. With more than 30 years of medical device and drug product development experience, Ronald has led multi-disciplinary technical teams, clinical trial development, and product registration in the US, the EU, China, and Brazil. His ophthalmic experience includes development of novel microcatheters for surgical treatment of glaucoma and retinal disease, sub-retinal access devices, diagnostic microspheres, and drug-releasing implants. Ronald’s technical background is in chemical engineering, biomaterials engineering, and biochemistry, and he is the inventor on more than 40 granted patents related to medical products. Ronald has a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, an MSc in Biomaterials Engineering from Clemson University, South Carolina, and has completed additional postgraduate studies in Biochemistry at Clemson University and the University of Southern California.