Jay Neitz
{{Short description|American ophthalmologist}}
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| fields = Ophthalmology
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- University of Washington
- Medical College of Wisconsin
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- San Jose State University (BA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (PhD)
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| thesis_title = Variations in Color Matching Among Humans with Normal Color Vision
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Jay Neitz (born 1953) is an American professor of ophthalmology and a color vision researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.
Education and career
Neitz grew up in Montana.{{cite news|url=https://www.kulr8.com/news/laurel-high-graduation/article_6f31a8eb-e6d9-5f2f-b547-aca10fb811f5.html|title=Laurel High Graduation|website=Kulr8.com|date=August 21, 2013|access-date=January 3, 2020}} He attended San Jose State University for his undergraduate, finishing with a BA in psychology and physics in 1979.{{cite web|url=https://ophthalmology.washington.edu/faculty/jay-neitz-phd|title=Jay Neitz, PhD (faculty profile)|website=Department of Ophthalmology|publisher=University of Washington|access-date=January 3, 2020}} He went on to receive his PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1986 under the direction of Gerald Jacobs. His thesis title was Variations in Color Matching Among Humans with Normal Color Vision.{{cite thesis|title=Variations in Color Matching Among Humans with Normal Color Vision|last=Neitz|first=Jay|type=PhD thesis|institution=University of California, Santa Barbara|date=1986}} After his PhD, he stayed at the same institution as a postdoctoral researcher for several years before starting a permanent position at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He moved to the University of Washington in 2009, where he is currently the Bishop Professor of Ophthalmology.
Research
Neitz's research lab, which is run jointly with his spouse Maureen Neitz, works on the biology of vision disorders, particularly related to color-blindness.
Their work on treating color-blindness in monkeys received some attention in the popular science press. In this work, they gave gene therapy to two red-green color-blind squirrel monkeys, combined with training. After five months, the monkeys began to be able to distinguish red and green. There is some potential that a similar treatment may be eventually developed for humans.{{cite news|url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090916133521.htm|title=Scientists Cure Color Blindness in Monkeys|work=Science News Daily|date=September 16, 2009|accessdate=November 12, 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/colortherapy/|author=Brandon Heim|title=Gene Therapy Cures Color Blind Monkeys|website=Wired.com|date=September 16, 2009|accessdate=November 12, 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/story/monkeys-with-superpower-eyes-could-help-cure-color-blindness/|title=Monkeys With Superpower Eyes Could Help Cure Color Blindness|last=Rogers|first=Adam|website=Wired.com|access-date=January 3, 2020}} Neitz and coauthors have also proposed that gene therapies of this type might in the more distant future be able to give tetrachromatic vision to humans with normal vision.{{cite journal|title=Color Vision: Almost Reason Enough for Having Eyes| last1=Neitz|first1=Jay|last2=Carroll|first2=Joseph|last3=Neitz|first3=Maureen|journal=Optics & Photonics News| volume=12| issue=1| pages=26|date=January 2001|publisher=Optical Society of America|url=http://www.neitzvision.com/img/research/CV-ReasonForEyes.pdf| doi=10.1364/OPN.12.1.000026| bibcode=2001OptPN..12...26N}}
In 2010, Neitz and his wife Maureen Neitz were awarded the Pepose Award in Vision Science by Brandeis University.{{Cite web|url=http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-12/bu-vrj121709.php|title=Vision researchers Jay and Maureen Neitz to receive first Pepose Award from Brandeis|website=EurekAlert!|language=en|access-date=2020-02-08}}
References
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External links
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- [http://www.neitzvision.com/ Neitz Vision], the laboratory of Jay Neitz and Maureen Neitz
- [https://vimeo.com/76872858 Reweaving the Rainbow] Lecture at the [http://www.lindahall.org Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology], October 10, 2013
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Category:American ophthalmologists
Category:American evolutionary biologists
Category:American vision scientists
Category:University of Washington faculty
Category:San Jose State University alumni